Given that Lord Ashcroft and David Cameron are known not to be on the friendliest of terms, the former Conservative Party deputy chairman’s biography of the Prime Minister was never going to be a puff piece. Yet Steerpike suspects that even Cameron will be taken aback by today’s Daily Mail front page:
Monday's Daily Mail front page:
Revenge!#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/jU3P3WiGF4— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 20, 2015
The first part of the paper’s serialisation of Call Me Dave looks into a young Cameron’s days at Oxford university. First though Ashcroft details his feud with Cameron, explaining that their relationship turned sour after he failed to make good on a promise to offer the Tory donor a top job if elected. However, after today’s excerpt Mr S suspects that Cameron may have made a wise call by not appointing Ashcroft to a senior government role. His response to the snub appears to be to publish a story from an unnamed source on Cameron’s alleged intimate relations with a dead pig.
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