British Prime Minister David Cameron said he should have handled scrutiny of his family's tax arrangements better and promised to learn the lessons after days of negative media coverage and calls for his resignation.
He confirmed he would publish his tax returns as he accepted the blame for the controversy over his connection to his late father's offshore business interests.
After four days and four different statements over his late father's inclusion in the "Panama Papers", Cameron said on Thursday he once had a stake in his father's offshore trust and had profited from it.
Speaking at the Conservative Party's spring forum in central London today, he said: "It has not been a great week. I know that I should have handled this better, I could have handled this better.
"I know there are lessons to learn and I will learn them.
"Don't blame Number 10 Downing Street or nameless advisers, blame me."
Mr Cameron continued: "I was obviously very angry about what people were saying about my dad. I loved my dad, I miss him every day.
"He was a wonderful father and I'm very proud of everything he did.
"But I mustn't let that cloud the picture. The facts are these: I bought shares in a unit trust, shares that are like any other sorts of shares and I paid taxes on them in exactly the same way.
"I sold those shares. In fact, I sold all the shares that I owned, on becoming Prime Minister.
"And later on I will be publishing the information that goes into my tax return, not just for this year but the years gone past because I want to be completely open and transparent about these things.
"I will be the first Prime Minister, the first leader of a major political party, to do that and I think it is the right thing to do."
He has admitted he had made a £19,000 profit from a Bahamas-based fund set up by his father Ian Cameron.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for the Prime Minister to make a formal Commons statement on the issue, claiming Mr Cameron had "misled the public" and "lost the trust of the British people".
