According to the actress Helena Bonham Carter, a long[-]term acquaintance, the prime minister is far from right wing and not even that conservative.
If her friend of 15-years had been running in America he would be a member of the centre left Democratic party [sic], she added.
The comments were made during an interview to promote her latest film Dark Shadows but the talk inevitably turned to her friendship with the prime minister and his wife Samantha.
The 45-year-old actress, who with her husband the director Tim Burton was photographed with the Camerons walking in the Chilterns on New Year's Day, is famously bohemian and liberal.
But she denied this was any hindrance to a friendship with the leader of the country. "He's not that conservative, actually," she told the Sunday Times.
"I mean, he's not a right-wing person. If he was in America, he'd be a Democrat, and he's got a hilarious sense of humour, which nobody really knows about."
She admitted that she was amazed when he became prime minister but mainly because she never expected anyone of her contemporaries to rise to such a lofty position. » | Richard Alleyne | Sunday, April 22, 2012
