THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: David Cameron has angered the French government by apparently mocking the diminutive height of Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Conservative leader is said to have made a remark about "hidden dwarfs" whilst discussing a photograph of himself and Mr Sarkozy, who is seven inches shorter than him.
The disclosure comes after it emerged that George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, also made a quip about the French president's stature at a conference hosted by The Spectator.
Mr Sarkozy, who is 5ft 5in, is understood to have made an official complaint to the British government after Mr Osborne made a show of removing a stool from behind the lectern at which he was about to speak and joked it was the "Sarkozy box". >>> | Sunday, March 14, 2010
*Tut, tut, Mr Cameron! Weren’t you taught better manners than this at Eton? Furthermore, you have just set back Anglo-French relations by a decade. – Mark
