Cameron friend attacked by hoodies

Danny Kruger (pictured), Tory leader David Cameron’s former speechwriter and the man responsible for the 'compassionate' policy dismissed by Labour as "hug a hoodie", has been beaten up…by, er, hoodies. It happened last month while Kruger was in Camden with his wife. Seeing a gang of hooligans stealing a moped, he and the owner of the bike sprung into action.

"Like the pair of prats we were, the owner and I tackled youth crime," writes Kruger in this week’s Spectator magazine. It didn’t go as planned (there were certainly no hugs). He adds: "We received between us a black eye (owner) and a cut lip (me), and no moped. My main memory of the incident is rather horrid: the spit-filled face of the little rat-faced boy who punched me. Short, white, in a grey hooded tracksuit he shouted at me with all the rage of Cain: the most astonishing indignation."