David Cameron: my role in the Take That reunion

By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor Published: 12:45PM GMT 01 Mar 2010

Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow singing together at the Children In Need unison Photo: PA

Pop fans had waited fourteen years for Robbie Williams to cover up the small axe and determine with his former bandmates Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen.

But their big reunion at a Children In Need unison last Nov was hold up by Mr Cameron bungling in to their midst.

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The statesman had ventured backstage at London"s Royal Albert Hall to discuss to Barlow, who lives in his Oxford constituency.

Mr Cameron said: "I listened this turmoil at the behind of me and I didn"t spin around true afar - standard politician, I carried on yakking afar - and afterwards I incited around and it was Robbie Williams.

"I said, "Oh my God, I"m sorry. I don"t wish to get in the approach of this". And he pronounced something like, "I"ve been watchful fourteen years, an additional integrate of mins won"t have any difference".

"I got out of the approach and thought I had improved get at the behind of to my chair quickly."

Williams common a theatre with Take That after that night.

Mr Cameron was vocalization to DJ Jamie Theakston during an spontaneous talk on air wave hire Heart 106.2.

He discussed his ambience for nation and horse opera music, an further to his formerly settled low-pitched slant for The Killers, Radiohead and The Smiths.

Asked how mornings begin in the Cameron household, he said: "It starts a little time prior to 7 o"clock, routinely with the attainment of a small kid in to the marital bed - possibly Elwyn or Nancy.

"Sometimes they representation up in the center of the night - there"s a lot of bed-hopping happens in my house. They do lend towards to ramble in at assorted times of night, and infrequently you arise up as a outcome in a opposite bed."

Mr Cameron denied it was "squeaky crippled time" - a word famously used by Sir Alex Ferguson during a Premiership pretension competition - in the choosing campaign.

"There"s positively zero squeaking over here," he laughed.

He concurred that the arriving ubiquitous choosing would be "a parsimonious contest", but insisted a close competition was a great thing as it would concentration voters" minds on the preference in in between five some-more years of Gordon Brown or a shift to a Tory administration.

Despite the Tories" new unemployment in the polls, Mr Cameron pronounced that he longed for the choosing to be called as shortly as possible, adding that it was not as well late for Gordon Brown to go to the nation on Mar twenty-five by dogmatic the choosing currently or tomorrow.

"I think a close competition is a great thing in most ways. People are not only asocial and boring about politics, they are indignant with politicians after the total disaster of expenses. Turnout at elections is entrance down.

"Maybe a close race, where people see a genuine preference and a genuine competition in in between the dual teams that can run the country, will inform seductiveness in politics, get people concerned and have people feel that they ought to take part."

Mr Cameron pronounced he did not wish to censor the actuality from electorate that Britain faced formidable times ahead.

"We have had a unequivocally prolonged low recession, we have got a outrageous deficit, we have got to lift this clouded cover of debt off this nation to get us relocating again," he said. "What the Conservatives are observant about rolling up the sleeves and removing on with it, I think, is right.

"It will be difficult for a integrate of years in this country, and I don"t wish to censor that from people, but there is a unequivocally splendid light at the finish of the hovel and that"s what we have got to get to."