Oh dear. Is the Labour leadership campaign beginning to get too much for the Burnham camp? After the Guardian announced last night that they would be endorsing Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham’s campaign manager Michael Dugher was quick to tweet a link to the Guardian‘s 2010 endorsement of Nick Clegg.
BREAKING NEWS (2010): @guardian backs Nick Clegg http://t.co/59bJFzIX2A
— Michael Dugher (@MichaelDugher) August 13, 2015
As this endorsement didn’t work out too well for the Liberal Democrats, some users took this to be a thinly veiled dig by Dugher — who previously worked closely with Labour spin doctor Damian McBride under Gordon Brown — to suggest that the paper’s endorsement is not worth much.
@MichaelDugher that's low and unnecessary
— Martin Gowans 🌹 (@martingowans) August 13, 2015
However, Labour’s attack dog appeared to be keen to downplay such suggestions, hastily tweeting that he hadn’t wound up the ‘Liberal Democrats’ in a while but it was ‘deeply satisfying’:
Nice to wind up some Lib Dems tonight.
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