While Number 10 has refused to comment on the claims made in Lord Ashcroft’s David Cameron biography, the Prime Minister did manage to make a small reference to the book at a dinner last night at the Carlton Club.
James Landale, the BBC’s deputy political editor, says that Cameron appeared to acknowledge his old foe Ashcroft’s book — which includes accusations of drug taking and intimate relations with a dead pig — during a speech at a Conservative fundraising dinner at the London club:
‘He told the 300 guests that he had had to go to hospital earlier in the day for a bad back, the result of some over-energetic wood chopping in his constituency at the weekend.
The surgeon told Mr Cameron that he would need an injection and asked him to lie on his front.
The doctor then said: “This will just be a little prick, just a stab in the back.” Which, the prime minister said, “rather summed up my day”.’
Meanwhile Ashcroft appears keen to win himself some good PR with a push to point out the royalties of the book will go to charity:
"Call me Dave" is at number 14 on the best sellers list.
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