Seems like Guido had his crosshairs trained on some other Labour insiders. Tomorrow’s Sunday Times and News of the World are both running stories which implicate other members of Brown’s coterie in the plot to smear top Tories.
According to the NotW report, a new email reveals that Ray Collins – the general secretary of the Labour party – chaired a meeting about the Red Rag website in Charlie Whelan’s office. Whelan, Damian McBride, Derek Draper, Andrew Dodgshon and, ahem, the Mirror’s Kevin Maguire also attended. Sounds like quite a crowd.
While the Sunday Times targets the Schools Secretary, no less:
“ED BALLS, the schools secretary, used Damian McBride, the disgraced spin doctor, to smear ministerial rivals and advance his own ambitions, a Downing Street whistleblower has claimed.
In an explosive new twist to the e-mail affair, a No 10 insider has revealed that Balls was the mastermind behind a ‘dark arts’ operation by McBride to undermine colleagues.
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