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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tom Happold

The curse of the Spectator

Michael Howard will be worried: the Spectator has a weblog. The Tory leader has had nothing but trouble from the magazine since Boris Johnson took over the editorship.

First, he had to sack Mr Johnson from his frontbench after his affair with columnist Petronella Wyatt hit the headlines. Tory candidate Adrian Hilton was next to go, sacked over his article accusing the EU of being a papist plot.

Now Nick Herbert has suffered the curse of the Spectator, with his suggestion that the Tories have a "top-secret" tax-cutting agenda - rather undermining his credentials as an on-message replacement for Howard Flight.

The Spectator has signed up politicians to blog throughout the campaign just like us: although the unfortunate Danny Kruger has already been sacked as a Tory candidate over careless comments (the curse again).

The question, however, remains: will Boris be blogging?

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