Unfinished Business

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Former PM David Cameron has revealed he asked whether The Queen could "eyebrows" over the prospect of Scotland voting for independence.

He told the BBC that he sought the help of Royal officials in the days before 2014, the voice, in the midst of the "Assembly-panic" can he lose.

What was discussed was not", would anything in any way inappropriate. But only a lift of the eyebrow, too. a quarter of an inch," he said.

The Queen later.

The comments - Made to a well-wisher, who were outside a Church on The Balmoral estate - one of the most talked-about topics of The Campaign for the referendum.

reflection on his rise and his Six Years in Downing Street in a two-part BBC documentary, Mr Cameron said The Queen ' s words to the theme will be "very limited, But it helped, a slightly different view on things".

Scotland was to reject independence by a margin of 55. 3% to 44. 7%, a result that Mr Cameron said, had him "blessed, happy".

In a statement, Alex Salmond , who resigned as Scotland's first Minister, who, in consequence of the result, said Mr Cameron's actions were not only wrong, But showed how desperate the no-side was during The Final stages of the independence campaign.

starts The Cameron years, on Thursday, examines Mr Cameron's modernisation of The Party , to give its decision, a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the 2010 election and the consequences in 2016 Brexit referendum, which led to his resignation.

In it, he says:

On the EU referendum, Mr Cameron, BBC Radio 4 Yesterday said program, "he said, the slightest bit complacent" during The Campaign , he fought "with every fiber of my being".

But he said the Labour leadership during The Campaign "was just there, was not engaged" and it was "very hard to fight these things on their own".

He added that the result would "probably even worse" if the people knew, he would stop, if Left, won the vote.

not Just as The First rule of Fight Club is that you talk about Fight Club The First rule for The Relationship between the Prime Minister and The Queen , that they never talk, never, never about The Relationship between the PM and The Queen .

It is difficult to imagine anything other than terror in The Palace of David Cameron ' s revelations. Not only because he has broken The First rule. But since he has Made it painfully clear that in the year 2014 he took The Queen for his own political purposes. And that you and your advisors thought that was OK.

The revelation comes as a suspension of Parliament - a suspension Made on the effective instructions of Boris Johnson - under unprecedented scrutiny in the Supreme court.

The two cases are very different, But both highlight The Dark grey tones of The Queen of the constitutional position, the discretion, which it has or lacks, to speak, under exceptional circumstances, and to act.

In the run-up to the 18. September survey on Scottish independence, it was reported that The Queen was concerned about the possibility of Scotland, the decision to separate the 300-year-old union with England and Wales.

A Sunday Times survey on the 7. September put The Yes campaign contributed to a "mounting sense of panic" in Downing Street, Cameron remembered.

the survey, Which was published while he and his wife, Samantha, were in the residence at Balmoral, "Hit Me like a blow to the Solar Plexus ".

a poll is A "mounting sense of panic" in the Downing Street

Cameron found that contributed to The Yes campaign in front, who agreed to hold the independence referendum in The Face of opposition within his party, said it was urgent discussions between advisers at Downing Street and Buckingham Palace followed, to find out how The Queen 's comment was, while still within the constitutional limits of neutrality.

"I remember conversations I had with my Private Secretary , and he had with The Queen 's Private Secretary and I had with The Queen 's Private Secretary , to ask for nothing that is in any way improper or unconstitutional, But only a lifting of the eyebrow, you know, a quarter of an inch. We thought that would make a Difference . "

Buckingham Palace insisted that The Queen is above politics

If you said asked on BBC Radio 4 Today programme for more detail about what had happened, Mr Cameron, he "did not want to Say Anything more about this".

"I'm sure that some people would think, maybe even to me, that's what I said, perhaps a bit too much," he said.

At the time, the BBC's royal correspondent said The Queen 's words were "more of an observation than intervention," while Buckingham Palace said any suggestion that The Queen was looking for, was to influence the outcome of the referendum "categorically false".

the officials insisted the monarch was about politics, and the topic of Scotland, the future was a topic for the people.

Two Weeks after the Scottish referendum, Mr Cameron was forced to apologize, after what The Queen " purred into The Phone ," when you were told about the No result.

'Unfinished Business '

While he feels "sad" about the events for the 2016 British EU exit vote, Mr Cameron said he did not regret the decision to hold the EU referendum.

While some people would forgive "never" to him, he claimed that The British 40-year-old membership was always "unstable" and the duty of the leader of "coming to see the difficulties and try to solve them and shape the country's response to you".

He took he "totally underestimated the deferred Leave-gen" in his party, and that during The Campaign , whilst "he had a winning hand, he couldn't seem to get it to play".

After she was cut lost the vote, Mr Cameron said he knew he had to stop, because he Brexit not deliver on the "credibility", But was "desperately sad" his time in office Short .

Mr Cameron said The Coalition was Able to think out of a financial crisis

"I remember all the things we could and should have done if we had been Able to. to win the referendum," he recalls. "A lot of what we have done, could effectively ran into The Sand of the European edition. "

On his economic and social record, he rejects as "total nonsense," opponents claimed that the deep spending cuts as a political decision, the size of The State .

He says that the multi-billion-pound budget-inherited deficit of his government in the year 2010, a "clear and present danger to The British economy is require" Immediate Action .

"at the end there were some difficult and painful decisions, But the inequality is decreased, and the proportion of income paid in tax by the richest went up, not down," he argued. "We protect the retirees, we protected the NHS, we protected the aid for the poorest. "

Mr Cameron his long-awaited memoir was released with the title For The entry, on Thursday.

In extracts published by The Times last week, he accused Boris Johnson and Michael Gove "terrifying" while the Brexit referendum.

The First episode on 21. 00 BST.

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Source of news: bbc.com