Peer and pollster may acquire thought his book would serve as political obituary for a defeated Tory leader but the polls were proved wrongIn January,four months before the general election, Lord Ashcroft assumed he was writing the prime minister’s political epitaph. The Conservatives were heading for possible defeat and the former deputy party chairman who helped propel David Cameron into Downing Street in 2010, and told a book awards audience: “As most of you know we are writing the obit … Ah sorry David,the biography.”The billionaire Tory donor who had given his party £8m, felt strongly he had been spurned over a senior job and his joke suggested he might be relishing documenting Cameron’s demise. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com