DAVID Cameron spoke today of how his other children were dealing with the recent sudden death of their brother.

The six-year-old, who suffered from a rare epilepsy condition accompanied by severe cerebral palsy, died in hospital last month after being taken ill overnight.

The Tory leader said five-year-old daughter Nancy imagined her sibling in heaven doing things his severe disability had prevented him from doing in life.

He said: “Nancy said that Ivan is in heaven now and he is doing things that other children do, which he couldn’t do before, like walking and talking and eating chocolate.”

The Witney MP told ITV’s Alan Titchmarsh Show both Nancy and three-year-old brother Arthur Elwen had proved “quite resilient” in the wake of Ivan’s death.

“There are moments when they talk about it a lot and think about it a lot and then other moments when they seem okay,” he said.

Reading more than 11,000 letters from well-wishers, including many from families in the same situation, had been a great help to him and wife Samantha, he said.

He said: “I remember the first person who said to me after Ivan was born ‘well, good things will come of this’ and I remember wanting to thump them.

“But actually they were right. There will come a time when you look back and think of all those wonderful moments.”