Stunning week for your Mail, the paper that sets the agenda and gets results
THE release of Shaker Aamer caps an outstanding week of revelations and victories for the Daily Mail.
It began with our exclusive serialisation of Lord Ashcroft’s biography of the Prime Minister, which disclosed the peer’s fury at Mr Cameron for going back on a vow to reward his support for the Tories with a top job in government.
It also contained on-the-record claims that Mr Cameron smoked cannabis at university and that cocaine was in circulation at a dinner party at his home.
Our coverage sparked frenzied speculation over the identity of the MP who claimed Mr Cameron ‘inserted a private part of his anatomy’ into the mouth of a dead pig at an initiation ceremony for a debauched Oxford University society.
On Wednesday, the Mail scored a hugely significant victory in its campaign to bring charities exploiting the elderly to book. Now an official report for the Government has called for a new watchdog with powers to stop overly-aggres-sive charities from contacting potential donors.
And yesterday the Mail scored a resounding victory in its battle for justice for Mr Aamer.
This newspaper has also set the agenda with a crusade for justice for a Royal Marine jailed for murder after shooting a dying Taliban insurgent on the battlefield.
Meanwhile, the Mail continues to fight for the rights of courageous Afghan translators ‘abandoned’ to the Taliban after working with the British Army. ÷ And it is campaigning for families of British soldiers killed in Iraq to be given the truth – after repeated delays by Sir John Chilcot in publishing his report into Tony Blair’s disastrous war.