Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:44
Details have emerged of the email that has caused such a headache for Gordon Brown.
Damian McBride's e-mails set out plans for a vicious smear campaign against the Tories, which forced the resignation of one of the prime minister’s most senior aides.
One slur involved accusing a gay Tory MP of promoting his partner’s business interests in the Commons.
The operation was designed to target David Cameron, the Conservative leader, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, and three other Tory MPs.






MSPs voted unanimously in favour of a new law widening the definition of hate crimes to include attacks on gay people making them aggravated offences that can be more severely punished.
The High Court has ordered the Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, to return a gay man who was removed from the UK to his native country.
The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama has brought a whole number of LGBT-related political developments: nine new appointments were revealed to be in the works, a gesture was made, and an unexpected skeleton emerged from a completely overlooked archival closet.