Sentences with word «smeargate»

Coming on top of Smeargate we have had revealed the full extent of Labour's economic failure.

Andy Newman posts that «I think they have the argument spot on, perhaps they have limited this to Labour Party members in an attempt to steer the party away from the negative approach revealed by smeargate; but I am am sure that many progressive bloggers outside the Labour Party will also fully endorse their general argument.

Alan Milburn, one of Blair's allies, regularly briefed against by Brown's henchmen during his time as Health Secretary, was more than willing to get his revenge during Smeargate.

But the smeargate affair echoed more profoundly than most scandals due to two unique angles.

Does it perhaps suggest that they have gained by keeping out of the claim and counter claims over «Smeargate»?

«Smeargate», as it became known, saw the leaking of emails between Downing Street's Damian McBride and Labour blogger Derek Draper.

Sunder is right, the content of «smeargate» has been exactly the same as it would have been in the newspapers.

Balls was also close friends with Damian «mad dog» McBride, the Brown spin doctor forced to quit over «smeargate», and accused of unleashing the «forces of hell» on former chancellor Alistair Darling.

We haven't had any post-budget figures from ICM, Populus or MORI yet, but so far it is looking as if, between the rows over MPs expenses, «smeargate» and the budget, we have seen a further shift against Labour and we are back into Tory landslide territory.

Just as Gordon Brown has not understood that voters are rejecting his false dividing line between «investment» and «cuts», Harman, Bradshaw and Bryant have not understood the lessons of Damian McBride and «smeargate».