Cameron calls PM a ‘phoney’

CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron has been rebuked by House of Commons speaker Michael Martin after he called Prime Minister Gordon Brown a “complete phoney”.

Mr Cameron was forced to withdraw the remark during a stormy prime minister’s questions. in the Commons.

He was criticising Mr Brown over an interview in which the PM said the focus in politics “on who said what, when, how and why” was “divisive”.