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Pm tells students in Kazakhstan that he would like to be Jk Rowling's hero but hints that some might view him as the villain

David Cameron has joked that anyone with "any sense" would like to be Harry Potter, though he acknowledged that the British people would probably see him as the malign Voldemort.

In a question and answer session with students in the Kazakhstan capital, Astana, the prime minister showed a good knowledge of the Jk Rowling books by not actually mentioning Voldemort's name. The evil character is famously known in the Harry Potter novels as He Who Must Not Be Named.

Speaking at Nazarbayev University – named after the authoritarian president who flew the prime minister on his private jet on Sunday – Cameron also said that he misses his wife Samantha "desperately" on overseas trips. He also admitted that some of his Oxford tutors write to him to »

- Nicholas Watt

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