article_snippet.sent: David Cameron has also had to wade into a number of arguments, defending outspoken ministers, and even got into a muddle over cream teas.
article_snippet.sent: On Thursday David Cameron was been forced to defend Michael Fallon after the defence secretary claimed Ed Miliband would stab Britain’s national interest in the back in the same way David Cameron did David Cameron brother to gain the Labour leadership.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, another campaign gaffe saw David Cameron wade into the Cornwall Devon debate about how to eat a scone - getting the two counties contrasting traditions mixed up.
article_snippet.sent: food faux pas as Ed Miliband chatted with staff and customers of Tea by the Taw on The Strand in Barnstaple, the North Devon Gazette reported.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron, on a visit to Cornwall Devon this morning, made the blunder of confusing the two methods for eating a cream tea .
article_snippet.sent: All good politicians know how to make small talk with voters, but the jam and cream debate is no trifling matter.
article_snippet.sent: In an attempt to woo the locals, David Cameron ventured: 'When you are in Cornwall Devon you do the jam and the cream in a different order to Cornwall, is that right?'
article_snippet.sent: Sensing a gaffe was imminent, David Cameron went on: 'I'm going to get this wrong, aren't I?'
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron prediction was correct, as David Cameron added: 'In Cornwall Devon it's... jam first and cream on top?'
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron comments were greeted with silence and stony faces, as the staff realised someone was going to have to put the Prime Minister right.