David Cameron ‘in the dark’ on government decisions!

David Cameron often only learns about government decisions when they are reported by the media, his former policy guru has revealed.

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Painting a shambolic picture of the Downing Street operation, Steve Hilton (Left)  said the inability of No 10 to control government decisions was ‘pretty horrific’.

‘Very often you’ll wake up in the morning and hear on the radio or the news or see something in the newspapers about something the Government is doing,’ he said.

David Cameron's former strategy guru Steve Hilton has revealed that the Prime Minister often finds out about his own government's policies through the radio and in newspapers

‘And you think, well, hang on a second – it’s not just that we didn’t know it was happening, but we don’t even agree with it! The Government can be doing things... and we don’t agree with it? How can that be?’

Mr Hilton revealed that ministers spend only 30 per cent of their time dealing with the Government’s priorities, with 40 per cent spent handling diktats from the European Union and the rest on ‘random things... which were not anything to do with the coalition agreement’.

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By Jason Groves, Political Correspondent