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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Cameron’s spokeswoman commented that she would not “dignify” the claim by offering a response to it, and most are speculating that Lord Ashcroft’s book, including the piggy tale, is an act of revenge for his snub by Cameron.
The social media explosion over the incident with #Piggate and even parody accounts have amassed thousands of followers.
Well done, the internet.
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.
DOWNING Street has been forced to fend off claims David Cameron participated in a weird student initiation ritual as a simmering row with a major Tory party donor erupted into the open. But that has nothing to do with pigs, dead or otherwise, so let’s go back to that.
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.
A new biography of David Cameron by a former ally turned political enemy contains claims of youthful debauchery by the future British leader, according to extracts published by the Daily Mail on Monday.
But their version was contradicted by Lord Ashcroft who said: “In 2009, I discussed the matter in detail with Cameron”.
David Cameron in London on September 15.
“Cameron’s strategy appears to be: put up the shutters, then rubbish the book on the basis that we have had no access”, Lord Ashcroft wrote on his website.
The book, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, was co-authored by former Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott.
Lord Ashcroft, who has given around £8 million to the Tories, later gave up his non-dom position in order to retain his place on the Conservative benches in the Lords.
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The Prime Minister told the 300-strong crowd the doctor’s comment “rather summed up my day”.
