David Cameron’s ‘youthful excesses’ defended

Downing Street has been forced to fend off claims that David Cameron participated in a bizarre student initiation ritual as a simmering row with a major Tory party donor erupted into the open.

The allegations concerning Cameron’s supposed youthful excesses have been made by the billionaire businessman and former Conservative Party treasurer Michael Ashcroft.

In a book co-authored with the journalist Isabel Oakeshott, the peer claimed Cameron was present at events where drugs were taken and was part of a decadent Oxford University dining society.