Jeremy Dear, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, has hit out at Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘crass and insensitive’remarks about the cuts facing the BBC.

Cameron prompted much criticism on Friday when he referred to “delicious” cuts to the corporation when taking questions from journalists on the UK agreeing to a 2.9 per cent increase in its contribution to the European Union budget despite wholesale cuts being made domestically.

According to The Telegraph, while responding to a question from Newsnight’s Michael Crick about how he would explain the increase, Cameron quipped: