Alastair Campbell, the former Labour spin doctor, on Sunday urged his party not to be frightened off the internet by the media “hoo-ha” over the e-mails affair.
“This episode is a bad example of the old politics, much more than a botched example of the new,” Mr Campbell wrote on his blog, saying he had been struck by the “incompetence” as well as the “unpleasantness” of the e-mails sent from No 10.
