David, it’s Mummy: Now, about that pig...

HUNDREDS of signed copies of david cameron’s autobiography For The Record are on sale at conference — at a discounted price.

i’m told the ex-PM considered attending but stayed away to avoid being asked difficult questions about brexit.

The book was three years in the making — so it is strange that despite its 750 pages, its author did not find the space to mention one significant figure during his leadership.

Lord ashcroft, whom cameron made deputy Tory chairman and who helped raise millions of pounds for the party, is curiously absent from the oeuvre. cameron has never forgiven ashcroft for the latter’s unauthorised 2015 biography, call Me dave, which included the allegation that, while an undergraduate at oxford, the future PM took part in a bizarre initiation ceremony that included a pig’s head.

in his book, cameron says: ‘My first reaction wasn’t anger or embarrassment. i couldn’t believe someone would write a book about me and include a story that was both false and ludicrous.’

but not everyone was immediately sure it was false. cameron’s mother Mary telephoned her son the day after the pig’s head story went public to ask him if it was true.

a friend of cameron said: ‘i think it was the only time Mrs cameron, who had heard all sorts of stories about dave, actually went to the trouble to call him to seek reassurance it was ridiculous.’