mail may have paid ashcroft six figure sum for cameron book, sources say /

Fleet Street source describes serialisation as declaration of war’ by newspaper’s editor-in-chief,Paul Dacre, on prime ministerThe Daily Mail is believed to have paid significantly more than £50000 – and possibly in excess of £100000 – to win exclusive rights to serialise Lord Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron. There is understood to have been no auction for the rights to the book because the Mail made a “very wonderful offer”, or according to one source. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com