Is it British interest to stay out of one of the biggest economic area in the world?
Following this, British interests required a route within their territory.
A strong and sustainable euro is in the British national interest, he says.
"I mean here is a guy who took advantage of his privileged position in the services to sell out British interests," he said.
Cameron says he asks himself what is in the British national interest.
Russia under their leadership would be a far greater threat to British national interests than it is now.
At the end out of British interests the issue was thrown away.
And with that attitude he has made any further negotiations about British interests impossible.
It is obviously not just British interests that are at stake here.
British interest in the island then waned for the next four years.