суббота, 3 марта 2012 г.

UK prime minister's senior aide resigns

A senior aide to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned Saturday after reportedly circulating scurrilous rumors about political opponents.

Special adviser Damien McBride stepped down after a newspaper published a summary of e-mails he allegedly sent to prominent political blogger Derek Draper, a supporter of Britain's governing Labour Party.

Draper said the e-mails, sent in January, were intended to provide fodder for a gossip Web site called "The Red Rag" which would attack members of Britain's opposition Conservative Party. But in a post to his blog, Labour List, he noted that the Web site never got off the ground and that the personal …

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