Call Me Dave by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott; Cameron at 10 by Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon review – the great Tory deception
by Chris Mullin from on (#Q4P2)
Two tomes on David Cameron's first term are compelling enough but share one glaring omission - how he pulled off the lie that Labour caused the financial crisis
"I want to be clear," writes Michael Ashcroft in his introduction to Call Me Dave, "my motivation for writing this book is not about settling scores." Hmmm, I thought on reading these words, up to a point, Lord Copper.
But no, remarkably, and despite the nonsense about a pig's head, this is a biography almost entirely free of malice. Indeed, apart from a brief introduction and a lengthy appendix summarising the conclusions of his regular opinion polls, which he publishes on his own website, Lord Ashcroft's fingerprints are largely absent.
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