A Brief Interview with the Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, as He Reaches One Year in Office

Peter Snootles: So Prime Minister, you've been in office for almost a year, what are your thoughts?

David Cameron: I like the power but I'm not so keen on being booed! We're just trying to implement the Thatcherite policies that everyone loved in the 80s but with a 21st century marketing strategy. I don't understand why people have a problem with that. In my world everything is black or white, right or wrong. There's none of that wishy-washy stuff like Tony Blair: in my view Thatcher was right and our policies are right.

Peter: In the election campaign you were quite ardent that the NHS would not be changed in any way under a Conservative administration. In government you have immediately set out plans to sell it off and break it up. Explain.

David: I recognise that the NHS is very important to people. Millions of people are employed by the NHS and we needed their votes to win an election. On the day of the election I immediately realised that my statements were misleading and could have been misconstrued: I apologise for that. The NHS needs radical reform if we're to lower taxes in the future. Andrew Lansley has been planning his changes for the last 13 years so it would be a shame to call him off now.

Peter: Nevertheless, you are reviewing the policy?

David: Yes, I'm saving the NHS from these despicable reforms.

Peter: Nothing to do with Nick Clegg?

David: No, the changes are mine, but they'll most likely be quite light and superficial: that's the way I roll!

Peter: So you are saving the NHS from your own reforms?

David: Yes.

Peter: In opposition you made great play of a perceived lack of support for the Armed Forces by Gordon Brown.

David: That's true.

Peter: Yet as soon as you gained power you made scything cuts to the Defence budget.

David: The Labour government wasted billions on defence and embarked on controversial wars that were hugely unpopular.

Peter: You supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Iraq conflict could not have proceeded without Conservative support in the House of Commons. You have now embarked on a war in Libya.

David: Our involvement in Libya is really a token gesture. I couldn't let Sarkozy take all the credit! We have committed a few planes, a couple of ships and a submarine. They'll all be sold off when they return home.

Peter: David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain, thank you for joining me.