The book, entitled Call Me Dave, includes claims that Cameron was involved in drug-taking and was the member of a “debauched Oxford society” while at university, and that he knew about Ashcroft’s controversial “non-dom” status in 2009.
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The book claims that Cameron smoked marijuana and took part in weird initiation ceremony as part of a university society, called the Piers Gaveston Society.
David Cameron once put a “private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth during a freaky initiation ritual, it has been claimed.
FORMER Conservative Party treasurer Lord Ashcroft says his new book about David Cameron isn’t about “settling old scores”.
The Prime Minister’s official spokeswoman said: “I am not intending to dignify this book by offering any comment”.
Lord Ashcroft’s book which was also co-written by Isabel Oakeshott says that they were told about the pig’s head incident by a distinguished Oxford contemporary who later went on to serve as a member of the Parliament.
This isn’t the first time Ashcroft’s split with Cameron has made news: In 2013 he reportedly stopped donating to the Conservatives, citing distrust of the prime minister. The man repeated the allegation in detail and claimed a photograph existed of the act.
Cameron had once accused Ashcroft of avoiding paying taxes on his foreign investments. “On any of it”, a Cameron spokesperson tells the Independent.
He said firmly: “Just to clear it up: nope, I’d never heard anything about Cameron and a pig when coming up with that story”.
Writing in the newspaper, Ashcroft said he was disappointed that Cameron only offered him a “declinable” junior post after he formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats in 2010.
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He wrote a highly-critical report on Mr Cameron’s handling of the 2010 election campaign and eventually retired his parliamentary seat ahead of this year’s general election. “The critical thing in all of this is that those of us who are in politics mustn’t be hypocrites”.
