The political smear campaign, for which the Prime Minister's political adviser has resigned, was filth. I can scarcely think of another word for suggesting that the wife of a politician has mental health problems, to say nothing of the other proposed allegations.
The Prime Minister is directly associated with this and should supply us with an explanation of how it happened. In any walk of life you have to take responsibility for the actions of people who report to you, and his relationship with McBride and Tom Watson, about whom I think we shall hear more, was very close.
The other thing that should come out of this is why McBride was paid by the taxpayer. He was a civil servant when his role was clarly not a civil service one: it was entirely party political. We ought to emerge from this with all-party agreement that political workers are paid by their political party.
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