This statement was deprived by press officer Isabel Oakeshott, who has co-written the book. But a party source later specifically denied the allegation that has caused the biggest stir – that Cameron was a member of the decadent Piers Gaveston club and allegedly put “a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth as part of an initiation rite. He is accused of having sexual relations with a dead pig during an initiation ceremony to join the secretive Piers Gaveston society at the University of Oxford.
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The story was recounted to the authors by a contemporary of Mr Cameron who went on to become an MP.
Baron Richards, who was chief of the defence staff until 2013, complained about the Prime Minister’s “knee-jerk support for the underdog”, according to the latest claims from a biography. Asked about allegations made in the book, the Prime Minister’s spokeswoman said: “I’m not intending to dignify this book by offering any comment or any PM reaction to it”.
A majority of people do not care about the allegations made about David Cameron in former Tory donor Lord Ashcroft’s new book.
“Furthermore, there are a number of accounts of pigs’ heads at debauched parties in Cameron’s day”.
Labour shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth called on Mr Cameron to reveal when he knew about Lord Ashcroft’s non-dom tax status.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron in central London, Britain September 15, 2015.
“Lord Ashcroft was always very clear right from the outset of this project that the book should be objective and even-handed”, she told Sky News.
Mr Ashcroft, a former deputy chairman and treasurer of the party, admitted that he had been expecting the ministerial appointment following Mr Cameron’s first general election victory in 2010.
“The prime minister should immediately clarify exactly when he first knew of Lord Ashcroft’s non-domiciled status”.
The Daily Mail published excerpts of the book, which, among other things, also claims that Cameron often smoked marijuana in university.
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Lord Ashcroft is still employed by the Government as Mr Cameron’s “special representative for veterans’ transition” and sources have suggested his position could now be reviewed.
