The Camerons’ gruelling summer holidays

As places to spend your holiday, the prime minister's destinations are unremarkable - except for one.

Ask a group of parents of small children if they would like to take them on four holidays over the summer, and I suspect most would say no. Four rounds of packing and unpacking. Four round trips through security. Eight fights over who gets to sit by the window. It would all be too exhausting.

David Cameron is made of sterner stuff. Earlier this summer he spent a week in Ibiza. After that, two weeks in Portugal. Then, a shorter break in Jura, on his father-in-law's estate, where he and the family swam, fished and rode horses. This showed particular grit, given the "phenomenally bad back" that has forced him to give up stalking (he is no longer able to crawl through gorse carrying a gun). Now, finally, he has made it to the traditional summer destination of the southern upper middle classes, Cornwall, where he is braving the weather along with hordes of other Londoners.

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