David Cameron goes into reverse gear over Jeremy Clarkson While David Cameron can't be blamed for what his relatives and inlaws say - even his wife's stepfather, Viscount Astor, when he condemned the Coalition's decision to go ahead with the high-speed rail line - the Prime Minister knows that he has to monitor his friends with care. After embarrassing him once again, Cameron has resolved to put as much clear blue water as possible between himself and Jeremy Clarkson, whose latest jape was to involve the PM in an edition of Top Gear which resulted in a complaint to the BBC from the Indian High Commission over its lack of cultural sensitivity. "The Prime Minister has no plans to see Mr Clarkson in the forseeable future," one of Cameron's most senior aides tells me curtly when I inquire. When he last encountered Clarkson, unexpectedly, at a private gathering in Chipping Norton on New Year's Eve, not long after he had seen the crass Indian edition of Top Gear and decided that he "did not like it," Cameron had turned on his heel. Clarkson joins a growing list of individuals that the PM is now straining not to be seen with. It includes Rebekah Brooks, the disgraced former News International boss, and her one-time colleague, Andy Coulson, whom Cameron hired as his director of communications because he felt that he deserved "a second chance." Clarkson's problem is that he has now had his two strikes and he's out. Before the Top Gear special, in which Cameron was filmed waving goodbye to Clarkson and his pals as they set off for India, Cameron had to disown his friend's "silly" outburst on The One Show when he said that public sector workers who had taken part in the national strike should be shot. As for his family, Cameron has had to contend with Sir William Dugdale, his uncle, saying: "If you ask the working classes who they want to lead them, they will say they prefer to be led by a duke."