LONDON (AP) British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was only being polite when he posed for a selfie photo at Nelson Mandela's memorial service deflecting complaints that he was being disrespectful during the occasion.
Cameron joined President Barack Obama and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt in thecamera phone snap at the service in South Africa on Tuesday.
Many British newspapers featured the shot on their front pages Wednesday. The Sun tabloid offered the headline: "No selfie respect."
When asked about it in Parliament, Cameron said amid laughter from lawmakers that Mandela brought people together so he thought it "only polite to say yes" to a request for a photo from Thorning-Schmidt, the daughter-in-law of former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.
