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Former prime minister David Cameron has said he regrets the “feeble” response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008.

He made the remarks when asked if he had any regrets about his own time in office and he insisted by the time he became prime minister and Moscow invaded Crimea in 2014 the response was stronger.

But he said there had been “a sense that, look, you had to try and find a way of working with these people”.

Asked about a speech he gave at the State University of Moscow in 2011 where he said Britain and Russia would be “stronger together”, he said: “What I regret is in 2008, when I was leader of the opposition, when Russia effectively invaded Georgia, I went to Tbilisi to show solidarity with President Saakashvili.

“And if you look at the Western response to Georgia, it was feeble, there weren’t sanctions, there wasn’t pressure put in place. 

“We should have done that in 2008 and we did behave differently in 2012 when Putin invaded Crimea, in 2014.”