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Senior figures warn that party has suffered 'reputational damage' over Damian McBride affairGordon Brown will be told by senior Labour figures this week that he must clean up Downing Street if Labour is to have a chance of winning the next election following the departure of his aide, Damian McBride, who proposed a smear campaign against David Cameron, the Tory leader.As a 'furious' Cameron demanded a personal apology from the prime minister , one senior Labour figure warned the party had suffered 'reputational damage'.McBride, a senior Brown aide dating back to the prime minister's time as chancellor, resigned on Saturday after the political blogger, Guido Fawkes, uncovered a series of emails outlining plans for a smear campaign against senior Tories.The prime minister's adviser proposed articles for a New Labour-supporting website, to be called Red Rag, to 'destabilise' the Tories. McBride's ideas, which he emailed to the former Mandelson adviser Derek Draper who runs the LabourList

Damian McBride sent the first of two emails that would cost him his job at 6.30pm on 13 January. 'A few ideas I have been working on for RedRag,' he wrote to Labour blogger Derek Draper. 'For ease, I've written all the below as I'd write them for the site.'The email suggested a series of unfounded and puerile smears against senior Tories. Draper responded 20 minutes later: 'Absolutely totally brilliant Damian. I'll think about timing and sort out the technology this week so we can go as soon as possible.'The two main targets of McBride's emails were the Conservative party leader, David Cameron, and the shadow chancellor, George Osborne. McBride suggested spreading gossip, entirely unfounded, that Cameron may have suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. He wrote that Cameron should be challenged to publish his 'full financial and medical records'. He also suggested 'inserting [a] picture of Dr Christian Jessen', who appears on the Channel 4 programme Embarrassing Bodies. There was

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