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Cam the Sham’s lack of shame in naming Nelson Mandela as his personal hero is gobsmacking.

Asked which living person he most admires, the Tory leader said it was the freedom fighter who led South Africa’s liberation struggle.

“For his grace and complete lack of bitterness,” oozed the PR man.

Excuse me if I choke on Cameron’s hypocrisy.

While Mandela languished behind bars, the Tory leader enjoyed an all-expenses-paid junket to a white supremacist South Africa.

In 1989, Cameron marked Mandela’s 26th year in prison sipping chilled wine with the apartheid state’s rulers.

He wasn’t a Young Tory wearing a “Hang Nelson Mandela” T-shirt but his visit comforted the great man’s oppressors.

Nelson does have grace and an inspirational absence of bitterness – but there isn’t enough metal polish for Cameron’s brass neck.