David Cameron enjoyed a luxurious week-long birthday party when he was just 11-years-old, according to more excerpts from Lord Aschcroft’s unauthorised biography.
The Prime Minister has faced a number of accusations about his personal life in a book written by the former Tory donor and Isabel Oakeshott, Call Me Dave, which has been serialised in the Daily Mail this week.
Excerpts published on Wednesday claim Mr Cameron acknowledged his extremely privileged upbringing and even joked about being born with two silver spoons in his mouth.
The piece detailed the incredible wealth he was reportedly surrounded by as a child and repeated a teacher’s account of his friend's birthday party that involved travelling across America with classmates from the exclusive Heatherdown prep school.
The reported trip was to mark the birthday of his classmate Peter Getty, the grandson of the oil billionaire John Paul Getty.
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“Aboard Concorde, the boys tucked into caviar, salmon and beef bordelaise. And when Llewellyn turned round to check his charges were behaving, he was met with the sight of Cameron cheerily raising a glass of Dom Pérignon ’69 and exclaiming: ‘Good health, sir!’
“The boys spent four days in Washington DC, sightseeing by air-conditioned convertible and dining in fine restaurants, before flying on to New York, where they explored the Empire State Building and World Trade Centre.
“After New York, the boys went to Disney World in Florida and the Kennedy Space Centre, before heading to Las Vegas, where they hung around the hotel swimming pool and played the slot machines."
Getty's birthday party then reportedly concluded with a visit to the Grand Canyons and Hollywood.
The Prime Minister was subject to widespread ridicule earlier this week following allegations in Lord Ashcroft’s book that he placed his genitals inside the mouth of a dead pig during an initiation ceremony for the Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford University.
Lord Ashcroft has admitted having “beef” with the Prime Minister after he was overlooked for a position in his cabinet after the 2010 elections, but denied the biography was his attempt at ‘settling scores” with Mr Cameron.
‘Call Me Dave’ by Lord Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott is published on 12 October 2015
Downing Street has refused to comment and said it will not dignify any of the claims with a response. But privately Downing Street officials dismissed the allegations about the pig as “utter nonsense”.
Mr Cameron also reportedly jokingly referred to having had to visit his doctor for an injury to his back, saying that when the doctor told him the injection he was getting would be “just a little prick, just a stab in the back”, he replied that “rather summed up my day”.
Lord Ashcroft hit back at his reported comments on Twitter, writing: ‘Good to see PM retains his sense of humour. We must have the same doctor. I had the same in 2010 when the PM reneged.”
