Daily Mirror

...Meanwhile, guess where the man who got us into all this mess in the first place has been busy chillaxing...

- EXCLUSIVE BY CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKTIN, US Editor in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica

DAVID Cameron has been feeling a different kind of heat to Theresa May – sweating in a wetsuit on a beach in Costa Rica.

The former Prime Minister enjoyed a sunfilled 33C holiday at surfers’ paradise Playa Hermosa.

He hired a 9ft board for three days from Jackalopes Surf Shop.

One worker said they were not sure who he was even after he signed a disclaimer.

He said: “It was only because of his security we realised he was someone famous. We had to google him. He seemed very relaxed and didn’t appear to have a care in the world.

“He surfed for about three days. He loved the waves here.”

The remote beach is a fourhour mountainou­s drive from the nearest airport but most wealthy travellers get in by helicopter.

It is a far cry from his usual surfing holidays in Cornwall, where he has a second home.

He was snapped in a wetsuit enj oying the waves in Polzeath in 2014. This year the 52-year-old and his wife Samantha, 47, and their children Florence, eight, Arthur, 12 and Nancy, 14, stayed at the £1,728-per-night White House at Playa Hermosa.

His bodyguards stayed in £490-per-night villas nearby.

The family also visited trendy Cafe Social – a favourite haunt of supermodel Gisele Bundchen – during their New Year stay.

Staff said Mr Cameron was initially turned away as the cafe was full, but they managed to squeeze him in.

One worker said: “He was very carefree. If you can’t relax here you cannot relax anywhere.

“They ordered breakfast and then left together. My sisterin-law is British and it was she who recognised who he was.”

Mr Cameron quit as Prime Minister in June 2016 when the nation rejected his calls to keep Britain in the European Union in the Brexit referendum.

He has since been accused of abandoning the country while writing his memoirs.

Mr Cameron’s spokesman said: “We would never comment on private family matters.”

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