Cameron picture withdrawn (From Witney Gazette)

Cameron picture withdrawn

11:20am Friday 2nd March 2007 in Witney

A PICTURE of Tory leader and west Oxfordshire MP David Cameron in the elaborate dress of an exclusive, invitation-only Oxford University drinking club has been withheld from the media.

The image, which shows Mr Cameron in about 1986 dressed in the tails and waistcoat of the elite Bullingdon Club, has appeared in several newspapers.

It is thought Labour was planning to use the picture on an election poster.

But the photographers who have withdrawn it say they acted for commercial reasons and have had no contact with the Conservative Party.

The Conservatives have also denied asking the Oxford-based company Gillman and Soame, who own the copyright, to withhold permission to show the picture.