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Because he has more important things to do like running the country maybe?
His lawyers aren't running the country though.

Ashcroft is fabulously wealthy. If Cameron was confident of winning a libel case against him and the paper which serialised his book, the writs would have been issued as soon as the issue hit the shelves.

Actually, most likely it would have happened before publication as he'll have known in advance that it was coming.

I don't believe for a second that the Dailly Mail would risk libelling the Tory PM without checking first.

I think Cameron "refused to dignify the story by giving a response" to give his team time to assess whether or not Ashcroft was in possession of the photo, ready to use it in the face of libel action.

Once they satisfied themselves that this was unlikely, a muted denial was issued, presumably dignifying the story.