A best man’s speech without the jokes…

The pig isn't the most surprising revelation from Lord Ashcroft's biography of David Cameron.

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Forget the pig, says Dominic Sandbrook in the Daily Mail. What's really striking about Lord Ashcroft's new book on the prime minister is David Cameron's gilded youth. Future historians, thinks Sandbrook, will be "astonished by the fact that in the second decade of the 21st century, Britain a supposedly diverse, dynamic and meritocratic society was led by a man who was sent to boarding school at the age of seven and later, at Oxford, joined the Bullingdon Club, which required him to spend the equivalent of £1,200 on a special tailcoat".

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