Q. How has your first year in office been?

A. It has been hugely compelling and a great honour to do the job.

Obviously, it is hard work but I have a great team around me. It is very satisfying, but I recognise I have more to do.

Q. Has your role as a constituency MP helped you as Prime Minister?

A. I have definitely had lots of strong support and lots of advice on things such as schools, policing and hospitals.

It informs the work I do as Prime Minister.

I find my constituency Fridays a really good time to listen to people and hear what’s going on on the ground.

I don’t get to spend as much time in West Oxfordshire as I would like.

Q. And what has their reaction been?

A. Sometimes people are very pleased. Sometimes people have questions and issues.

Q. Do you worry about the damage public spending cuts are doing?

A. Of course. It is never easy to reduce public spending. In West Oxfordshire, the council has handled reductions very well.

Q. Do you agree with cutting library services in Oxfordshire?

A. What the County (council) is now proposing is significantly changed. They are looking for ways to keep libraries open and looking for ways to maintain them.

Of course I have discussed it with Keith Mitchell, but it is his decision.

They (Oxfordshire County Council) must make their decisions and an MP makes his decisions.

Q. Have you been able to balance family life with the pressures of office?

A. It is not easy. It helps ‘living above the shop’. You get to see your children more and they get to run around a nice Georgian house in the middle of London.

Q. Have your children given you any advice?

A. Lots of advice, and they love kicking the red boxes around.

Nancy asked why don’t I have a hat like President Karzai.

They have been great.

Q. What one thing would you have done differently?

A. I think we should have set out our health reforms as evolutionary rather than had them set up as revolutionary.

I take full responsibility for that.

Q. Which world event took you most off-guard?

A. The big event has been the Arab Spring and the movement for democracy in North Africa and the Middle East.

It is a world-changing event and it took everyone by surprise.

Everyone has longed for this, including me.

Q. Any surreal moments?

A. There were lots of times when you think ‘I can’t believe I am doing this’. The Royal Wedding was one. You felt you were part of a real-life fairytale.

Walking into the Oval Office, meeting the Queen, getting to see our troops in Afghanistan. These are all great honours and the first time you do it you have to pinch yourself.

Q. Has it been a successful year?

That’s for others to say.

A. And priorities for the next 12 months?

The most important thing is to keep on track with the economic programme. What people want to see is growth, jobs and prosperity.

In West Oxfordshire, the most important thing is keeping the economy growing.

And we need remedial work to prevent flooding.