The first copies of Damian McBride’s book dropped in Brighton today, and the former spinner has been explaining not just his actions in government but why on earth he decided to write about them. Here are the highlights of his confessions:
Nearly everything the former spin doctor has said so far suggests he is quite contrite about his actions. On Newsnight last night, McBride said of his ‘victims’:
‘I do feel ashamed, I do feel sorry to those individuals whose careers I affected and even more so to the sort of innocent bystanders who were caught in the way’
McBride has also denied Alastair’s Campbell claim he broke the law (£) through the leaking of confidential documents:
‘I was always very careful about this during the years that I wasn’t committing any criminal offences.
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