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15 Other Times When David Cameron Has Had To Say Sorry

Dave's Sorry About Coulson...
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British Conservative party leader David Cameron speaks at the Royal College of Nurses conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, on May 11, 2009. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised Monday after days of revelations about lawmakers' expenses, including for dog food, as the spotlight turned on opposition Conservatives. The prime minister's 'sorry' over an issue which first hit the media on Friday came after the leader of the main opposition Conservatives, David Cameron, also urged law
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David Cameron is really very sorry for hiring Andy Coulson as his chief spin doctor at No 10 Downing Street, saying: "It was the wrong decision and I am very clear about that."

The Prime Minister pleaded for the public's forgiveness today after Coulson was found guilty of plotting to hack phones, insisting that he was assured that Coulson didn't know about phone hacking and that he apologised "unreservedly".

See also: Best Political Apologies: David Cameron 'Sorry' For Hiring Hacker Andy Coulson To Work At Downing Street

This apology is just the latest for Cameron, who is getting rather good at saying sorry. So good in fact, that HuffPostUK has rounded up a list of all the times he had to apologise.

David Cameron's Top Apologies
He was sorry about expenses(01 of10)
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David Cameron said the Tories were "sorry" in 2009 after a deluge of stories about MPs abusing expenses, adding: "The system we had and used was wrong".
He was sorry for seeming "one of the lads"(02 of10)
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Cameron said in 2011 that he had "screwed up" and was "not one of the lads" after telling Labour MP Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" and dubbing Tory MP Nadine Dorries "extremely frustrated".
He was sorry for what the Tories thought about Mandela (03 of10)
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Cameron admitted in 2006 that Margaret Thatcher and the Tories had been wrong to brand Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) "terrorists" during their struggle against apartheid.He said: "The mistakes my party made in the past with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa make it all the more important to listen now."
And sorry about what they thought about Section 28(04 of10)
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Cameron apologised in 2009 for the Tories bringing in section 28, the controversial item of legislation which banned the "promotion' of homosexuality in schools, saying: "Yes, we may have sometimes been slow and, yes, we may have made mistakes, including Section 28, but the change has happened".
He was sorry for ruining your holiday(05 of10)
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Cameron said sorry this month for the passport shambles that meant Britons' passports were delayed, with a spokesman saying: ‘If people have been inconvenienced, of course the Government is sorry for that."
He was "very sorry" about the floods(06 of10)
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Cameron said he was "very sorry about any way people have suffered" during the floods as he led the government's response to the events in February.
He was sorry for cutting child benefit (07 of10)
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Cameron said he was "sorry" soon after getting elected for breaking an election promise by withdrawing child benefit from 1.2 million higher-rate taxpayers.
He was sorry about his dodgy cycling(08 of10)
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Cameron said he was "sorry" for making "mistakes" in 2008 after being snapped ignoring red lights and cycling the wrong way up a one-way street.
He was sorry for being wrong about WWII(09 of10)
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Cameron admitted he was "absolutely wrong" after being taken to task by an angry member of the public late in 2010 after saying Britain was the US' 'junior partner' against the Nazis in 1940.
And he was sorry for saying a naughty word (10 of10)
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Cameron apologised in 2009 after using the word "twat" during a breakfast radio show interview, after saying: "The trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it – too many twits might make a twat."He explained: "You always have to be careful what you say. If I've caused any offence I obviously regret that."
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