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No 10 'smear' messages published  
 
 
E-mails discussing smearing top Tories that led to the resignation of a senior Number 10 official have been published.

Damian McBride, the PM's ex-political press officer, quit after the messages were picked up by a Westminster blog.

In them, Mr McBride made obscene and unfounded claims about the personal lives of party leader David Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne.

The Conservatives urged Gordon Brown to explain how the allegations came to be sent from an official e-mail account.

Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: "This is an exceptionally serious matter and he needs to explain immediately what happened."

Claims were also made against the Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries, who says she is consulting lawyers.

The e-mails were originally sent to former government spin doctor Derek Draper, who runs a pro-Labour blog, before they came to the attention of Paul Staines, writer of the Guido Fawkes blog.

Mr McBride called the suggestions "a few ideas I've been working on for Red Rag" - a reference to a Labour website.

He also wrote in the e-mails, sent from his Number 10 address, that he had used a bit of ''poetic licence'' based on what was known, to ''put the fear of God into Osborne''.

Mr McBride described the first as a ''solid investigative story'', but the other three as ''mainly gossipy, and intended to destabilise the Tories".

He added added: ''Let's think about how to sequence these in with others'' - a suggestion that a longer-term plan to place stories was being hatched.

'Clear explanation'

Mr McBride, a special adviser in Downing Street, was removed from his job dealing with the media on a day-to-day basis in September 2008.

He had stayed on in Number 10, and was given responsibility for strategy and planning.

A Number 10 spokesman said the messages were "juvenile and inappropriate".

The spokesman added that nobody in Downing Street knew of the e-mails and that it was Mr Brown's view that there was "no place in politics for the dissemination or publication of material of this kind".

A Tory spokesman said it was absurd that advisers were "plotting smear campaigns rather than focusing on how to help people affected by the downturn".

  I think the public will be very concerned that Downing Street is so desperate to hold on to power that it engages in such behaviour

Nadine Dorries MP

In his resignation letter, Mr McBride said he was "sickened" that Mr Staines had put the e-mails in the public domain and that he regretted embarrassing the government.

"I have already apologised for the inappropriate and juvenile content of my e-mails, and the offence they have caused," he said.

"We all know that when a backroom adviser becomes the story, their position becomes untenable, so I have willingly offered my resignation."

Mid Bedfordshire MP Ms Dorries demanded an apology from the prime minister and said she was considering legal action against Mr McBride.

"The taxpayers do not pay him to engage in this kind of behaviour," she added.

"I think the public will be very concerned that Downing Street is so desperate to hold on to power that it engages in such behaviour. "

She also questioned how Gordon Brown would feel if a Conservative staff member spread untrue rumours about his wife.

Mr Grayling said Mr McBride "appears to have been setting up a machine to try and disseminate false and scurrulous rumours about opposition politicians.

"It's absolutely disgraceful. He's certainly had to go. The real question now is was he the only person involved in all of this."

But Mr Draper branded the idea of an orchestrated Downing Street campaign as "ridiculous".

He said he had been sent the comments after canvassing Labour supporters about the prospect of setting up another blog to combat "right-wing tittle-tattle" posted on the internet.


 

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BNP 'threat' to Labour in Europe  
 
Harriet Harman says the BNP may challenge Labour in Europe
The British National Party could pose a major threat to Labour in the upcoming European elections, Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has said.

The BNP "are a bigger threat than they have been before", she told the Independent newspaper in an interview.

She also outlined Labour's efforts to counter the BNP ahead of elections for the European Parliament in June.

Labour is "focused on the BNP in this election in a way it hasn't been previously," she added.

'Below the radar'

Labour is using the slogan "fairness not fear" in areas where there is heavy BNP activity, instead of its national banner "winning the fight for Britain's future".

It is also working with anti-fascist groups and using anti-BNP "battlebuses".

Ms Harman, who is also leader of the Commons and Labour's chairman, was speaking after a campaign visit to north-west England, where BNP leader Nick Griffin is a candidate.

"Most people are not aware the BNP is standing," she said. "It is below the radar. There is very low public awareness of these elections.

"For us, it is a question of pointing out the dangers of the BNP, which now wears suits but whose ideology is as pernicious as ever."


 

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Obama brother refused entry to UK  
 
President Obama has several half-siblings by his father
Barack Obama's half-brother was denied entry to the UK after being accused of a serious crime on an earlier visit, the Home Office has confirmed.

Samson Obama, who lives in Kenya, was on his way to the US presidential inauguration in January when he was stopped at East Midlands Airport.

According to the News of the World, fingerprint tests linked him to an alleged sex attack on a British girl.

He was questioned but not charged over the incident in Berkshire, it added.

'Public good'

A Home Office spokesman said Samson Obama was denied a visa after immigration officers noticed one of his documents was false. That led them to further inquiries.

Samson Obama, who runs a mobile phone shop outside Nairobi, had been planning to make a short break in the UK on his way to Washington.

He eventually took a connecting flight to the US without formally entering the UK.

A UK Border Agency spokesman said in general, Britain would oppose the entry of individuals where their presence was "not conducive to the public good".

Samson Obama is one of several half-siblings of the US president by his father.

Barack Obama Sr left his son when he was two years old and lived most of his life in Kenya, where he fathered a number of other sons and a daughter with three other wives. He died in a car crash in 1982.