Prime Minister David Cameron sealed off a wood using armed police to indulge his secret passion for shooting – although he had to slum it with some pigeons.

The Prime Minister shouldered a 12-bore shotgun for the killing spree.

Cameron has previously spoken of his love of shooting deer, and is also said to be fond of fox hunting – but restricted himself to smaller, feathered prey, moaning to a friend that he ‘couldn’t go deerstalking’ now he was PM.

The secret pigeon-hunt was revealed in the political diaries of journalist Alan Cochrane, who wrote, ‘I suppose he doesn’t want to go back to the grouse-moor-image days of ex-Tory PM Harold McMillan, or be seen with a rifle.




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‘DC says he fancied a bit of shooting, so took his 12-bore to a wood near his home and bagged a couple of pigeons.’

‘The wood had to be surrounded by coppers with guns. He misses shooting things.’