Cameron tells of ‘huge responsibility’ in delivering Bloody Sunday apology

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former prime minister David Cameron has spoken of the huge responsibility he felt when delivering his apology for Bloody Sunday to the House of Commons Mr Cameron said he decided that his remarks, delivered in 2010, needed to be “absolutely direct and clear”. Speaking about the events of that day, he told the BBC Radio Ulster Talkback programme that the Saville report was one the “most shocking things” he had ever read. “And it was one of the most shocking things I have ever read and I knew before I read it what a responsibility it was, but I knew in reading it something very special, very clear, very frank needed to be said.” Mr Cameron continued: “I knew in this case there would be thousands of people listening in Derry wanting to know what Saville had said. “On this occasion it needed to be absolutely direct and clear.” Mr Cameron said he was “very moved” when he later saw the scenes in Derry of people welcoming his speech.