The PM was speaking with the Queen, the archbishop of Canterbury, Speaker John Bercow and Commons Leader Chris Grayling
David Cameron has described Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” in a conversation with the Queen.
The PM was talking about the forthcoming anti-corruption summit when he made the comments.
It was not clear whether he knew the comments were being recorded.
“We’ve
got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to
Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt
countries in the world,” Mr Cameron said.
Archbishop of
Canterbury Justin Welby intervened to say: “But this particular
president is not corrupt… he’s trying very hard,” before Speaker John
Bercow said: “They are coming at their own expense, one assumes?”
The
government will host world and business leaders at the summit on
Thursday in London, aiming to “galvanise a global response to tackle
corruption”.
Source – BBC