David Cameron snaps at Kate Garraway during feisty EU discussion about immigration
DAVID Cameron has been blasted by television viewers after he reprimanded Kate Garraway on Good Morning Britain during a heated debate about the EU referendum.
The presenter was grilling the Prime Minister about how he hasn’t met his targets on immigration and asking him how the referendum result would affect the amount of people coming here.
When she tried to pull him up on a point while he was still answering a question he hit back: “You’re asking a question then not giving me a chance to answer.”
The fiery exchange between the pair divided the viewers with many angry with the Prime Minister for attacking Kate Garraway.
Leila Morby tweeted: “Oi, Dave!! Don’t talk like that to our Kate!!”
And Ross Johnson-Pullin wrote: “#DavidCameron was just quite rude to @kategarraway on #gmb”
Also firmly in the Kate Garraway camp was Maisie Feen who tweeted: “Keep chipping at him Kate!!! He’s such a liar and twists every question/ answer! @GMB #GMB.”
But others sprang to the Prime Minister’s defence, including Kelly Jones who posted: “Trying to listen to PM talk about EU referendum is hard when Kate Garroway [sic] keeps interrupting him. I want to know what he’s got to say #gmb”
And a Twitter user called Zippy said: “Why doesn't lightweight presenter @kategarraway give the PM #Cameron a chance to answer a question?! #GMB @GMB.”
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During the interview he admitted Britain needs to be better at tackling immigration but vowed to not let the EU referendum tear the Tories apart.
Speaking the morning after last night’s Sky News debate, where he was accused of waffling, the Prime Minister said voting to Remain is crucial.
Last night he got harsher treatment than he did on the GMB sofa from the studio audience at the debate.
His toughest foe was 22-year-old student Soraya Bouazzaoui who tore into him saying she wanted to give the Prime Minister 'a taste of his own medicine' as she accused him of being 'dishonest, untruthful' and 'brushing a lot of things under the rug' by urging voters to stay in the EU.
Ms Bouazzaoui, who is a keen comic book fan and pro-Palestine campaigner, was praised by people who said she had won the debate and was ‘saying what many of us think’ on the EU.
Soraya told the Premier she had wanted to vote In, but his “entire campaign” had been “a complete shambles” and “nothing but scaremongering”.
The student, whose family came from Morroco, demanded of Mr Cameron: “How can you say staying in the EU has no risks when there are clear risks?”
When the PM insisted he had made “a very positive case”, seething Soraya hit back: “But that’s not answering my question. No, let me finish.
“I’ve seen you interrupt many people before. I’m an English literature student I know waffling when I see it.”
Another livid audience member, James Dexter, 52, from Abergavenny, accused Mr Cameron of suffering “reputational damage” as Prime Minister for what critics have dubbed his ‘Project Fear’ scare tactics to intimidate voters into staying in the EU.
Mr Dexter barracked him: “You’re scaremongering Mr Cameron”.
The PM replied: “To me this is not about scaring anybody. I’m genuinely worried what would happen if we leave.”
He added: “The job of the Prime Minister is to warn about the dangers as well as to talk about the upsides and opportunities.
“If I didn’t listen to the IMF, the OECD, to the Trade Union Congress, the CBI the Governor of the Bank of England, if I didn’t listen to any of these people I wouldn’t be doing my job.”
During last night's fiery debate he admitted the huge 1.2m influx of immigrants during his six years in power but refused to put a date on when his failed long standing pledge to slash immigrants to below 100,000 a year would be met.
The PM also insisted it was possible to get immigration back under control while having to abide by the EU’s free movement rules.
On his television appearance this morning the Prime Minister also brushed off claims he will be forced out of his job after the EU referendum by pro-Brexit Tories who want to force a no-confidence vote.
They include Nadine Dorries who appeared on ITV’s Peston on Sunday show and said she had already submitted her official request for Cameron’s resignation.
But speaking on GMB, Cameron said the Tories will be able to come back together because they all have a shared agenda to make people’s lives better.
He also said he would happy to meet the presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump if he comes to Britain during the presidential campaign.
This comes after he said he believed Trump had dropped his proposal of a ban on Muslims coming to the States.
Trump is planning to come to Britain during the week of the EU referendum so a meeting might not happen as the Prime Minister may be a bit busy.
Despite their earlier battling Kate Garraway and the Prime Minister ended the interview on a friendly note with a chat about the Camerons 20th wedding anniversary.
He said: “[Marrying SamCam] has been the best decision I have ever made in my life and we both agreed that we love each other more now than ever before.”
He was given a Good Morning Britain mug to give to his wife as traditionally after being married for 20 years couples give each other gifts of china or platinum.
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