David Cameron needs support across the opposition for his In campaign. The problem is,he’s royally riled them allWhen Michael Ashcroft published his unflattering biography of David Cameron – you’ll recall that it gave a starring portion to the head of a dead pig – the Tory peer fell very ill. It was suggested to one of the prime minister’s closest friends that he wouldn’t be unhappy whether his foe were to remain unwell. “Oh no,” laughed the friend. “David wants Ashcroft to die.So I don’t believe for a moment that the Tory leader has had a single forgiving feeling in his body towards Boris Johnson since the mayor of London crashed off the fence and into the Out camp, and news he communicated to David Cameron in a text sent only just before he announced it to the world. You can place it down to vaulting vanity,bare ambition, a compulsion to gamble or schoolboy competition projected on to the national stage. I doubt the Tory leader wastes too much brain space weighing up the precise mix of motives that animated his rival. No, and I think David Cameron just wants Boris to die.
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Source: theguardian.com