Ashcroft, who co-authored the book with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, first assumed the pig claim was a joke by the anonymous MP.
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David Hartley/REX Shutterstock/David Hartley/REX Shutterstock A book claims David Cameron did a shocking deed with a dead pig when he was a college student. He gave the dimensions of the photograph and provided the name of the individual who he claimed now holds the photograph. It was therefore a surprise when, some weeks later, the MP repeated the allegation.
Seen by many as a staid figure now, David Cameron has been painted as enjoying a bad-boy lifestyle involving drugs, womanising and an “outrageous initiation ceremony” as part of a notorious drinking club during his time at the University of Oxford (Sonia Elks writes).
The Piers Gaveston society, founded in 1977, claims several other high profile Britons in its alumni.
Former members of the club also include London mayor Boris Johnson and actor Hugh Grant, which was known for its outlandish parties and rituals.
The alleged act echoes the first episode of the drama series “Black Mirror”, in which the fictional PM has sex with a pig live on TV. They never emerged, and it was just a smear job with no substance. “So this weirds me out”. Ashcroft, who wrote the account of the prime minister’s alleged wild days with Isabel Oakeshott, describes a particular instance in which the three friends got stoned while listening to 1970s rock band Supertramp. “I had a room on the top floor, and we’d all sit on the floor and smoke dope”.
But it sheds new light on Mr Cameron’s journey from privileged student at Eton and Oxford to Number 10, via a career in PR where he made significant enemies.
The leader of the Conservative Party has repeatedly refused to deny taking cocaine, however, he has been adamant that he has not snorted the drug since joining Parliament.
He frustrated many senior Tories ahead of the general election this year by regularly publicly releasing detailed constituency polling which normally costs huge amounts of money to commission.
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This rift is said to have widened given disputes over tax law, as well as friction between Ashcroft and electoral strategist Lynton Crosby, who helped the Conservatives win the 2015 election.
