"None of these dinners were fundraising dinners or were paid for by the taxpayer, " Mr Cameron insisted.
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For all that Mr Cameron insisted this week that changing course was a sign of strength not weakness, his capitulations are piling up.
Tory leader David Cameron insisted Mr Coulson's job was safe, but stressed it was "wrong for newspapers to breach people's privacy with no justification".
On Monday, Mr Cameron insisted no UK ground troops would be deployed to the conflict in Mali, where French forces are fighting Islamist rebels.
On Monday, Mr Cameron insisted that the UK would "stick to our guns" over the EU's budget, by vetoing any increase above the rate of inflation.
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Prime Minister David Cameron insisted, however, that the government at Westminster had "no plans" to bring in new laws governing when a women could legally have an abortion.
In his Marr interview, Mr Cameron insisted it was "too early to say" whether the government would miss its key target for public sector debt to be falling by 2015, as some experts are predicting.
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Mr Cameron insisted the cuts were "totally achievable" without any reduction in the visible policing presence and said that a "surge" of officers - as seen in recent days - would still be possible in future.
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But Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted he will press ahead with the boundary changes plan and push it to a vote in Parliament.
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But, during his speech, David Cameron repeatedly insisted that the European single market would be at the heart of any new treaty with Brussels, billed as the alternative to exiting the union.
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But Mr Cameron, who insisted that cutting the "spare room subsidy" was not a tax, said support for disabled people was not being cut.
The spokeswoman said it was "in our interest to do a deal" and insisted Mr Cameron was trying to reach agreement.
He insisted that David Cameron was "coming on to my ground" on issues like taking on vested interests and "crony capitalism".
Mr Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne have insisted the veto was in part to protect the City of London from excessive intervention by Europe, but Labour and the UK Independence Party have both warned that actually no additional safeguards for it were achieved.
No 10 insisted claims Mr Blair is influencing Mr Cameron as "over-blown".
But summing up, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt insisted the government was still engaged in Europe despite Mr Cameron using the veto last month.
He insisted his decision was not a statement on the leadership of David Cameron and George Osborne.
Mr Cameron said Mr Hunt was "entitled to hold an individual view" but insisted it was not government policy.
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But the foreign secretary insisted the article had been intended as a challenge to Conservative leader David Cameron rather than to the prime minister.
Before the debate, David Cameron used a Commons statement to stress the importance of the EU to Britain's economy but insisted he shared his backbenchers' desire for fundamental reform, in an attempt to see over a major rebellion.
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