UK premier David Cameron ‘joked about Silvio Berlusconi’s whores’
British premier made comments to his wife about Italian leader - in front of graffiti artist
British Prime Minister David Cameron joked with his wife about Silvio Berlusconi's penchant for "jacuzzis and whores" before heading to Rome for a state dinner with his Italian counterpart, a graffiti artist whose work Cameron chose as a diplomatic gift has revealed.
Ben Eine's painting Twenty First Century City was presented to US President Barack Obama in 2010 on Cameron's first trip to Washington in 2010. Shortly afterward Eine was invited to Downing Street for tea and biscuits with the prime minister and his wife Samantha, just before Cameron was due in Rome for his first meeting with Berlusconi.
Cameron jokingly reassured his wife that he would not be sharing jacuzzis with Berlusconi and prostitutes, Eine told a conference in London.
Eine, a self-confessed former graffiti vandal who began his career tagging trains, revealed Cameron's unguarded remarks during an interview to mark the start of a conference on graffiti.
Eine said Cameron had to leave early to travel to Rome. He said: "We were sitting there chatting away and his PA or assistant came in and said: 'David, we've got to go'. And he jumped up and said 'Samantha I've got to go off to Italy - dinner with Berlusconi. Don't worry I'll get so-and-so to pull me out of the jacuzzi before the whores turn up'.
"And then he walked out the door. And I was like, that's great, prime ministers aren't meant to say that in front of bods like me, just in case I do this and repeat the story in front of a video camera. I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister."