Archive for damian mcbride
Opinion: A new challenge for people wanting to clear up public life
What do Bob Quick, Damian McBride and Den Dover MEP all have in common? They have all been caught up in a public scandal (security lapse, smears, expense claims). They all have or are being booted out (Quick has resigned, as has McBride; Dover was expelled from the Conservatives and is stepping down as an [...]
Michael White on the McBride affair
Michael White writes:
The murky underworld of sleaze and gossip which permeates the backdoor politics – and most walks of life where power, money, or the lack of it, matter – existed before the internet was invented or McBride got involved.
It will continue to thrive in his absence, only much faster than generations ago. Then a [...]
Damian McBride, Derek Draper and the smears against Tories
The Telegraph has reported:
Row as Number 10 emails ’smear Tories’
The emails, which made a number of unfounded, innuendo-laden suggestions about the private lives of David Cameron, George Osborne and other Conservative MPs, came into the possession of Paul Staines, who writes the Guido Fawkes political blog…
The prospect of publication [of the emails] alarmed ministers, who [...]
