article_snippet: But for David Cameron fateful ‘at home’ BBC interview, broadcast on Monday, in which David Cameron dropped the bombshell that David Cameron did not intend to run for a third term as PM, David Cameron doesn’t seem to have bothered to do David Cameron homework properly at all.
article_snippet: But David Cameron, a former political apparatchik-turned-PR man, never bothered to rehearse questions that might come up.
article_snippet: But so confident was Downing Street that the interview would go off without a hitch that Craig Oliver, the No 10 communications secretary – himself an ex-BBC man – didn’t even bother to make the trip to Oxfordshire.
article_snippet: Crucially Landale, who has been with ex-BBC for 12 years after a decade at The Times, was not asked for a list of questions he might ask, or even subject areas in advance of the interview.
article_snippet: It was not something that a helpful Downing Street official had suggested I might ask – with a heavy hint I might get an interesting answer.
article_snippet: It was just one of many speculative questions that political journalists like me ask in the hope that occasionally political journalists like me might get an answer.
highlights_snippet: Has now insisted David Cameron was just giving ‘straight answer to a straight question’ 