Lord Ashcroft’s book, Call Me Dave, is being serialised in the Daily Mail newspaper just two weeks before Conservative conference.
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Lord Michael Ashcroft, a former deputy chairman for the Conservatives, had backed Cameron’s first bid for power in 2010.
He also alleges that the prime minister used to smoke cannabis at university, and was almost expelled from Eton after being “busted” taking the drug.
But it is the claims about the pig that are truly astonishing.
Ashcroft claims that this contemporary claims that another member of the group has photographic evidence to prove that such an initiation happened.
Downing Street has said it refuses to “dignify” the book.
The tabloid carried the single-word headline “Revenge!” over its front-page story on the claims in the book, co-written by political journalist Isabel Oakeshott.
Cameron’s weird act allegedly occurred as part of the initiation ceremony for membership of an infamous Oxford dining club called the Piers Gaveston.
Meanwhile, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was asked about it while on a trade mission to China.
The Prime Minister told the 300-strong crowd the doctor’s comment “rather summed up my day”.
The Prime Minister’s official spokeswoman said: “The author has set out his reasons for writing the book” – referring to the tax-dodger’s claims that he had been offered a Cabinet post by Mr Cameron but was then snubbed.
She says that Mr Cameron is “absolutely fit” to be Prime Minister.
The Independent said that “perhaps most damaging politically” is the claim by Ashcroft that Cameron knew of his non-domiciled tax status in 2009.
He said: “The reality is we respect people’s right to a private life and a past”. “The critical thing in all of this is that those of us who are in politics mustn’t be hypocrites”.
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When the story broke in 2010, Cameron’s spokesman has said that the Prime Minister had known about it only for a month, but the book says he was made aware the year before.
