British PM Dismisses Book’s Claim About Lewd University Prank

The peer, a former Conservative party treasurer and donor, has written a biography, Call Me Dave, that includes tales of excesses during the Prime Minister’s university days.

The book also claimed that Cameron had smoked cannabis with a group of university friends who nicknamed themselves the “Flam Club” and later allowed cocaine at his London house.

‘A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig.

Despite Downing Street’s refusal to dignify Lord Ashcroft’s allegations with an official response, Mr Cameron has vented his frustration with a few jokes of his own.

He attended Eton College, the country’s most famous private school, and Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club, a raucous drinking-and-dining society with a reputation for drunken vandalism, the Firstpost report says.

Ashcroft, a former ally, fell out with Cameron after the prime minister failed to follow through on a promise to give him a top ranking job after winning the 2010 election.

Most of the allegations are about drug taking by Mr Cameron at Oxford and by guests at the Camerons’ home later.

A source, speaking to Lord Michael Ashcroft and journalist Isabel Oakeshott, claimed to have heard the claims made by a number of well-informed MPs.

Lord Ashcroft is a controversial figure in British politics, in part because of his long-time status as a non-domicile, who do not pay United Kingdom tax on foreign income.

David Cameron was given a second term as Britain’s prime minster earlier in 2015.

Asked by reporters during his trip to China what he made of the claims, he simply said: “I haven’t seen that book“.

The Daily Mail said that the biography would “make political waves” but the Guardian’s media columnist Roy Greenslade said that “it is highly doubtful that the book will cause more than a ripple”.