Twitter lampoons David Cameron over #piggate claim
The prime minister reportedly undertook the lewd act as part of an initiation ceremony for the elite Piers Gaveston society during his time at Oxford University.
Downing Street has publicly stated that Cameron doesn’t believe he even wants to dignify this story with any sort of public comment.
The Prime Minister’s official spokeswoman said: “The author has set out his reasons for writing the book” – referring to the tax-dodger’s claims that he had been offered a Cabinet post by Mr Cameron but was then snubbed.
Lord Ashcroft’s book, written with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, comes five years after he fell out spectacularly with the Prime Minister.
An unauthorized biography on United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron has given him something new to worry about. In the world that we are living, cheating is becoming a weird reality but today the world was shocked after the British Prime Minister David Cameron was accused of having sexual relations with a pig.
The newspaper says the book also brings into question the Conservative’s account of when Cameron first found out about Lord Ashcroft’s “non-dom” tax status, which allowed the party’s former deputy chairman to avoid tax on overseas earnings.
“Call Me Dave” is due to be published October. 12.
Time calls the claim Pig-Gate Scandal, which it said would stick with Cameron.
But the individual who is said to own the picture did not respond to approaches by the authors.
Meanwhile, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was asked about it while on a trade mission to China.
“People are much more likely to view the whole business as poor form by Ashcroft, a case of sour grapes”, Greenslade said.
However, friends close to Mr Cameron have dismissed a number of Lord Ashcroft’s allegations as “total c**p”. Claims are that the feud between the two originated when Cameron refused a promised “significant” position for Lord Ashcroft after the Conservatives emerged winners in the General Election in 2010.