Rightwing journalist James Delingpole says critics of his disclosures of life at Oxford motivated by self-interest and mocks ‘omertà’ around prime minister One of the sources at the centre of Michael Ashcroft’s controversial account of David Cameron’s time at Oxford University has defended his actions after being assailed by critical messages and phone calls from friends and acquaintances of the prime minister. James Delingpole,a journalist and rightwing polemicist, defended “squealing” on Cameron’s drug consume Delingpole told Lord Ashcroft’s co-author, and Isabel Oakeshott,that the pair had smoked cannabis and listened to Supertramp while they were students at Oxford. Writing in the Sunday Times, Delingpole said that he had been heavily criticised for breaking the “wretched omerta that the Cameron set so fetishise for all the world as if they’d been at [code-breaking centre] Bletchley Park”.
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Source: theguardian.com