Cameron's Bad Back Stops His Deer Stalking

David Cameron has been treated for a "phenomenally bad back" after it stopped him from going deer stalking on holiday.

The Prime Minister insisted he had not given up on the sport because of opposition from animal rights campaigners, adding that these days he'd simply rather go for a walk.

Mr Cameron spoke about his health in an interview recorded several days ago, as he enjoyed a holiday with his family on the Scottish island of Jura, and said "it's all in good nick".

He, wife Samantha and their three children were staying on a 20,000 acre estate owned by Mrs Cameron's stepfather Lord Astor before moving on to Cornwall.

Friends have previously described the Tory leader - who has been deer stalking for 20 years - as a crack shot who can shoot two stags in one go.

David Cameron also spoke of his family's love of riding Pic: BBC Scotland

But in the interview he said: "I'd rather go for a walk.

"This year I've got a phenomenally bad back so I don't really think I'll be able to crawl. It's a lot of crawling through the heather, sometimes for a very, very long time.

"I have had a scan so I know what it is, it's a protruding disc. I could have got this injection last week but I just thought I'll wait and give it a little bit of time. So we'll just see if it eases up a bit.

"It's not a slipped disc. Sometimes people slip a disc and they have to be put in a stretcher and taken to hospital. It's not quite that. He said everything was in reasonable shape.

"When you get into your mid-40s stuff like this starts to happen. It's all in good nick, but this thing has happened, which is a bore."

Mr Cameron, 46, later revealed on Twitter that he had been forced to have a painkilling injection on the way to Cornwall, but downplayed the problem.

He wrote: "I've been treated for a bad back/protruding disc at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre today. The staff say all will be back to normal very soon."

Traditional deer stalking in Scotland

Walking by the sea on the Hebridean island, Mr Cameron had told BBC Scotland that he still liked active holidays.

"I walk, I like fishing, I like going for a run. I even swim in this actually. I've caught some sea trout but we're not talking Moby Dick," he said.

He added that he had not waterskied for a few years and felt his days enjoying that sport were over.

"I think when you get to mid-40s it's time to hang up the water skis. Sometimes when you hit the water the impact knocks everything out of alignment a little bit," he said.

He also spoke of how happy his children are on the Scottish island.

"They can spend all day long looking for crabs, digging up shells, making sandcastles, damming streams. It is just the biggest best playground they could possibly have."

The Prime Minister said he often looked at a picture of the family on horseback in the sea as a reminder of their holidays.

He joked that he was not riding "bare-chested - no Vladimir" in a reference to the Russian leader.

"I think Putin would like it up here. He'd go for a bit of that fishing, maybe a bit of stalking," he added.

Mr Cameron insisted that he was "effectively in charge" of the country despite being on holiday somewhere so remote.

"I check my Blackberry, I contact the office, but I can do that and then say right it's holiday time, it's children time," he said.

The Camerons are now on their fourth holiday of the year, having earlier also visited Ibiza and Portugal.

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