Charlie Whelan’s trail of resentment

Guido’s keeping shtum about how he got his hands on the McBride emails, so it’s worth highlighting this passage in today’s Guardian:

“Some Labour sources were pointing the finger at the Unite trade union which is riven by splits. Charlie Whelan, the union’s political director who is a former Brown aide, was copied into the email, as was his aide Andrew Dodgshon. There is no suggestion that either of them leaked the emails, but there is a suspicion that one of Whelan’s many enemies in the union may have. One Unite source said: ‘There is no shortage of people who would be prepared to leak those emails. People are queueing up to punch Charlie’s lights out.'”

The final quote calls to mind Alastair Campbell’s comments to Hugo Young on p.542 of the Hugo Young Papers.  Given events, they’re worth reprinting here:

“There is the wider problem of unattributable briefings.