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" David Cameron was interviewed\u00A0at BBC Radio 1 this week by a group of listeners and Newsbeat&amp;#039;s Chris Smith, in what sounds like one of the most gruelling grilling&amp;#039;s since the start of the election campaign. Put under pressure on tampon tax and the living wage, D-Cam didn&amp;#039;t exactly prosper...       &amp;quot;Is it not time to introduce a living wage, to ensure that work actually gives people a decent standard of living?&amp;quot; DC: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m in favour of the living wage, I think companies that can pay the living wage should pay the living wage and it&amp;#039;s a good campaign. I think as well as that\u00A0we should see the minimum wage rise-&amp;quot; &amp;quot;But shouldn&amp;#039;t the minimum wage be a living wage? What is the point of having a minimum wage that doesn&amp;#039;t give you enough to be able to live off? It shouldn&amp;#039;t fall below a level that gives people a decent standard of living.... Could you live off \u00A36.50 an hour? We&amp;#039;ve seen MPs have an increase in wages during your term. Could you live off \u00A36.50 with your kids, your beautiful children and your wife? You probably couldn&amp;#039;t. Why should the public purse be paying to support people when it&amp;#039;s the companies that are employing them that should be paying them a decent standard of living?&amp;quot; DC: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re making a very strong case and I have a huge amount of sympathy for it, and... let me have a go-&amp;quot; &amp;quot;You know how much the living wage is, don&amp;#039;t you, Prime Minister?&amp;quot; DC: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s different in different parts of the country, and we pay a.. for instance, Downing St we pay the living wage.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Sorry, do you know what the living wage is?&amp;quot; DC:\u00A0&amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s different in different parts of the country.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Outside of London then. DC: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have the figures in my head.&amp;quot;  He also answered questions about feminism and tampon tax. When asked &amp;quot;Is it morally right to charge tax on tampons?&amp;quot; he got in a bit of a fluster again (listen at 21.20, below).  DC:&amp;quot;I wish we could get rid of this, there&amp;#039;s a real problem.&amp;quot; [crowd shouts] YOU CAN GET RID OF IT! DC: &amp;quot;NO! There&amp;#039;s a problem... it&amp;#039;s really... there&amp;#039;s a problem with getting rid of VAT on certain individual issues because of the way this tax is regulated and set in Europe.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We have\u00A0\u00A0HMRC are saying that tampons are luxury items.&amp;quot; DC:&amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not that.\u00A0I wish, look, I... I&amp;#039;ll tell you, as Prime Minister-&amp;quot; &amp;quot;But it is like that!&amp;quot; DC:\u00A0&amp;quot;It isn&amp;#039;t! If it was I would get rid of it tomorrow.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Well, good news, it is like that, you can do it tomorrow and we&amp;#039;ll look forward to it.&amp;quot; DC: &amp;quot;It isn&amp;#039;t, I&amp;#039;m very sad to say you&amp;#039;re wrong because if it was I would have done it by now.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s nothing to do with HMRC&amp;#039;s classification of tampons as luxury goods?&amp;quot; DC: &amp;quot;No I&amp;#039;m afraid this is something that is set by the EU. On this case, I regret to say, there&amp;#039;s a European Union element to VAT which makes it very difficult to change. Changing VAT on individual items is very difficult.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Is it morally right?&amp;quot; DC:\u00A0&amp;quot;Frankly no, and I wish I could live in a country where these things are not charged VAT on. If I could do it tomorrow-&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Well you&amp;#039;re in charge of the country-&amp;quot; DC: &amp;quot;You keep saying this! Yes, I am, but I&amp;#039;m trying to explain, if you give me a chance, because of the way that tax is regulated in this country it is very difficult to do.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Sort it out.&amp;quot;  Here&amp;#039;s the full thing if you fancy a listen:      Awkward. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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