Cameron: I’m ready to be prime minister

TORY leader David Cameron said yesterday “people are gagging for change” as he insisted he was up to the job of British prime minister.

Cameron also stood by his pledge to reverse part of the government’s planned hike in National Insurance despite a huge public spending deficit, saying the move was “utterly consistent with everything we have said”.

Speaking about his hopes for office, he said: “This is going to be the first time in 23 years that the Conservative Party goes into a general election with a seven-to-10 point lead. We’ve come a long way.”