UK Prime Minister David Cameron has finally broken his silence over the #Piggate controversy, jokingly calling the former Conservative party treasurer Lord Ashcroft a “little prick”.
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Mr Cameron has already confessed to being “desperately embarrassed” about his membership of the hard-drinking Bullingdon Club, and the latest stories of excess are similarly uncomfortable.
There have also been allegations about drug-taking at university and at a house party hosted by the Camerons.
Number 10 has said it will refuse to “dignify” any of the claims in Lord Ashcroft’s book with a response.
According to the latest extracts in the Daily Mail, Mr Dyke said of the mayoralty: “I was first contacted by Steve Hilton, who I liked a lot because he was not like a traditional Tory”.
There are reports of fury in US President Barack Obama’s team about the Prime Minister’s failure to win Commons support for bombing Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
At one point one of the men gets agitated.
The alleged incident happened when David Cameron was on a gap year holiday with a fellow Eton toff in the Crimea, as an 18-year-old.
To which he said “rather summed up my day”.
“We now have a country which is ungovernable… with vast amounts of weapons from Gaddafi’s arsenal moved south of the border, arming Boko Haram (extremists in Nigeria)”, the peer said.
Much more politically damaging, however, is Ashcroft’s insistance that Cameron knew much earlier than he has publicly admitted about the former’s tax avoidance – well before an election in which it would become an issue.
Usually, they say, it’s the slighted woman who should be most feared. “In 2009, I discussed the matter in detail with Cameron”.
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In comparison, 18 per cent neither believed the claims nor thought they mattered regarding the PM’s ability to lead the country.
