Now he tells us! Cameron ’never liked EU’

DAVID Cameron has suggested he is in fact a Eurosceptic – despite campaigning to remain in the EU.

In a speech at an event in Ukraine, the former PM said he disliked the EU flag and its parliament. The comments appeared at odds with his Project Fear campaign in the lead-up to last June’s referendum.

Mr Cameron also defended his decision to call the EU referendum. However he admitted it was ‘not the result I sought’. Speaking at Kiev’s National University after Theresa May triggered the start of Brexit negotiations, he said: ‘I think it is worth understanding that Britain always was uncertain, in fact opposed to the idea of the deeper and more integrated political union.

‘We looked at the European flag and we thought, “we don’t really like the European flag, we’ve got our own flag”. We looked at the European parliament and we didn’t really like the European parliament. We’ve got our own parliament, which we are very proud of.’

And he admitted he himself felt the same way about European institutions, saying: ‘I led the campaign to stay in and I didn’t like the European flag and the European parliament.

‘We were always uncertain about that political union element.’ He added: ‘I was passion- ate about my side of the argument, I fought as hard as I could, but I knew if I lost I would have to think about resigning.’

Mr Cameron is said to have been invited to speak at the event by billionaire tycoon Victor Pinchuk, whose company supplies pipes to the Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Mr Cameron has made a series of lucrative speeches across the world since his resignation. It is not known whether he was paid for the latest appearance.