Guess which disgraced former spin-chief is back? Yep. Damian McBride is interviewed in this morning’s Guardian and, conveniently enough, gives his take on the Andy Coulson situation. As you’d expect, his attempts to paint himself as an angel to Coulson’s devil are a hoot:
“‘The reason that matters is that if you can’t tell the truth to David Cameron, you can’t be expected to tell the truth to the press, and what I know from doing that job is the press must trust you 100% to tell them the truth.’
That will prompt hollow laughter from some lobby correspondents, who insist McBride is as ruthless and unscrupulous as his ‘McPoison’ nickname suggests. But the disgraced spin doctor insists he was always honest. ‘Whatever the vitriol that got thrown at me after I resigned, no one could say about me that I ever misled them or lied to them – that is the cardinal sin, and once you’ve lost that trust, you can no longer do the job.
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