David Cameron’s publisher has insisted the former PM’s long awaited memoir will be published in the autumn.
It came amid reports Mr Cameron was attempting to push back publication due to a promise he made to Theresa May to hold back until Brexit was agreeed.
But HarperCollins insists it will publish the memoir this autumn as planned.
According to the Daily Mail the former PM said “I honestly don’t know when it’s coming out.”
Mr Cameron, who promised the EU referendum as part of the Tory manifesto in 2015, is understood to have privately promised Theresa May he would not publish the memoir until after Britain had left the European Union so as “not to rock the boat”.
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But after Theresa May failed to get her deal through the House of Commons and was forced to beg the EU for an extension, Britain is now not scheduled to leave the EU until 31st October.
According to the Bookseller Mr Cameron’s office had allegedly cleared his diary for the first three weeks in April for him to start publicising the memoir and the HarperCollins imprint had planned a nationwide tour as well as dates in the US.
William Collins is reportedly also “demanding” a 100,000 cut to the manuscript.
The publisher acquired the world rights to the memoir in 2016 in a deal reportedly worth £800,000.
At the time the publisher said the book was “a frank and personal account” of Cameron’s reign at Number 10, and had been scheduled for publication last year.
“It’s frustrating because David finished writing the book three months ago,” a friend of the former prime minister apparently told the Daily Mail.
But HarperCollins told The Bookseller : “We are publishing this autumn as planned.”
