Sentences with phrase «special adviser damian»

The Tories are demanding an apology from Gordon Brown over his special adviser Damian McBride's smear attempt.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

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Writer Kate Maltby, who accused Conservative MP Damian Green of sexual harassment, Labour party activist Ava Etemadzadeh, who accused Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, and former special adviser to Nick Clegg Bridget Harris, who made allegations against Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, said they had little faith their political parties would put their houses in order, and accused them of ignoring the issue for decades.

He also said that Thornberry's new special adviser, the notorious spin doctor Damian McBride, would be «brutal» and that this was a good thing.

After the Commons had become a little more composed, Hunt countered Harriet Harman's attacks, pointing out Labour had not felt it necessary to refer Gordon Brown to any independent advisers when his special advisors - Damian McBride, Charlie Whelan et al - had been found to have carried out vicious briefings against Ministers and Shadow Ministers.

Labour special advisers came to be tainted by an image of impropriety, bullying, spin and cynicism: Charlie Whelan, Jo Moore, Damian McBride (the latter's background, ironically, was in the civil service, not the party).