Dwarfgate: 5ft 5in Sarkozy’s fury as 6ft Cameron and 5ft 11in Osborne ‘mock his size’
David Cameron is caught up in an extraordinary ‘dwarfgate’ row with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.The dispute centres on a claim that Mr Cameron made a remark about ‘hidden dwarfs’ while discussing a photograph showing himself with Mr Sarkozy – who is seven inches shorter than the Tory leader.
The French government was reportedly furious about the comment.
And Shadow Chancellor George Osborne allegedly fuelled the Franco-Tory war by describing a box placed beneath a speaker’s lectern as a ‘Sarkozy box’, before bursting into a fit of giggles.
The jibes, made over a period of three days, led to French officials remonstrating with British counterparts, according to BBC2’s Newsnight.
