The British government’s relationship with Russia is somewhat frosty since David Cameron ordered 75 British soldiers to Ukraine earlier this year to help the country defend itself against Russia. With diplomatic relations at a low, Cameron may now have new reason for Russian woe.
Word reaches Steerpike that Cameron’s unofficial biographers Lord Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott recently travelled to Moscow on a research trip. With Ashcroft’s polling services no longer required in the UK, the pair took their quest to discover Cameron’s secrets for their upcoming biography, Call me Dave, to the Duma:
— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) May 15, 2015
With Cameron already suspicious of ‘the Ashcroft book‘, which he has refused to collaborate with the authors on, this new twist may give him fresh reason to sweat. While the exact nature of their research is unknown, Cameron’s relations with Russia date back to his student days when he claims that the KGB attempted to hire him on a trip to the USSR.
Get Britain's best politics newsletters
Register to get The Spectator's insight and opinion straight to your inbox. You can then read two free articles each week.
Stock markets around the world continue to plummet but Donald Trump has his mind on other matters: his tariff war with China. The American president has this afternoon hit back at Beijing’s announcement on Friday that it would impose retaliatory tariffs of 34 per cent on US goods following Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ levies last week.
Comments
Join the debate for just £1 a month
Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.
UNLOCK ACCESS Just £1 a monthAlready a subscriber? Log in