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Ashcroft's Cameron biography: serious questions amid the pig jokes

Pig jokes and pig puns littered Twitter following the first day of the Daily Mail’s serialisation of Lord Ashcroft’s unauthorised biography of David Cameron.

As the Times’s Hugo Rifkind pointed out, most of the jokes had been done by midnight on Sunday. But that didn’t stop several national newspaper editors from repeating them in headlines on Tuesday.

So we were treated to “Is Cam telling porky pies?” (Daily Mirror); “It’s a pig fuss over nothing” (Metro); “Hunt for swine who squealed over pig act” (The Sun); “The PM and the pig - who’s telling porkies?” (The Independent); “Don’t you squeal on me, Cam” (Daily Star); “The sow... and a vow of silence” (Daily Record). No, I don’t understand that last one either.