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Gordon Brown today has finally taken the advice of St Michael’s and apologised for the email dirty tricks scandal, not that anyone in England really cares? Well only the Tories, and let’s be honest all the British political parties are at each other in one-way or the other? and the English public have far grater worries than silly boy’s emails.

Gordon spoke about the 'smear emails affair during a visit to Glasgow this morning where he’s more than welcome to stay.

He revealed he had been 'horrified' and 'very angry' when he first learned about the emails sent by his advisor Damian McBride and as if he didn’t already know.

But one of the intended Tory targets of the smear emails today dismissed Brown's apology as nothing more than 'spin' but that’s what they all do is spin, they spin every single day with their rubbish and lies.

Nadine Dorries said: 'I think the reason why he did it was that he knew he would be asked about this by reporters, how wrong can you be Nadine, its old news now he did it because St Michael’s told him to and that there would be no rest until he did.

She said, I am pleased he said sorry but why didn't he say it to me first? There still needs to be a full inquiry into who knew what and if there were any other emails sent.'

She claimed what Gordon was doing was 'just another example' of the Government's spin operation. And you don’t do that in the TORIES DO YOU? Nadine you’re all as bad as each other, and none of you can be trusted

Brown was criticised earlier in the week by St Michael’s for failing to say sorry in a letter he wrote to those targeted by the disgraced aide.

The Tories were furious that, despite a letter expressing regret, he had not said sorry for the personal claims made about the party leader and three colleagues.

Today, almost a week on, Gordon said he took responsibility and stated: 'I am sorry about what happened.'

Gordon said: 'I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.'

He said: 'I have said all along that, when I saw this first, I was horrified, I was shocked and I was very angry indeed yes of course you where Gordon?

'I think the most important thing we do is reassure people everything is being done to clean up politics in our country, well I don’t think just saying sorry to the TORIES IS GOING TO DO THAT Gordon, and I wonder which country is he now taking about?.

'I wrote to the people who were affected by it and expressed very deep regret for what happened.

'The person who was responsible went immediately and lost his job and I have ensured that there are new rules so this can't happen again.

'We have done everything in our power to deal with this.'

This is not the first time that Brown has come under pressure for refusing to apologise.

Last month the Prime Minster refused to succumb to a campaign by ministers that suggested senior politicians should take responsibility for the global financial crisis.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, whose wife Frances was among those targeted by the smears, said the apology was 'a little late'.

'It has come a little late this apology and it is a shame we had to ask for it,' he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.

The controversy, which exploded while he was on an Easter break with his family in his Tatton constituency, had been 'pretty unpleasant', he said.

Mr Osborne added: 'It's not a nice thing to go through. Of course there is rough and tumble in politics and you get very used to it if you are in the frontline. But this went way beyond that and was pretty personal.

'I was on an Easter break with my family and we were in my constituency and we have just moved on from it and got on with the things that families do.'

Last night, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell acknowledged that Gordon Brown's right-hand man Damian McBride was guilty of a 'clear and serious breach' of Whitehall rules.

But he accepted assurances that no other ministers or advisers had been involved in the proposed smear campaign of invented stories about the sex lives and mental health of Tory MPs and their partners.

But last night the Conservatives took the unusual step of lodging a formal protest with Sir Gus after he appeared to accept without investigating the facts for himself that McBride had acted alone.

The Cabinet Secretary turned down a call for him to look into whether Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister, or other officials had known of the Red Rag gossip website which McBride planned with a former Labour spin doctor, Derek Draper.

Mr Watson, a close ally of McBride and an advocate of internet political campaigning, has not been seen in public since the furore broke.

Instead he has issued a statement through libel lawyers Carter Ruck denying knowledge of McBride's activities.

In the letter to Shadow Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, Sir Gus said: 'Tom Watson has made his own position clear.'

He also insisted the Prime Minister had made clear 'that he has been assured that no minister or political adviser other than Damian McBride had any knowledge of, or involvement in, the emails'.

But Tory sources said Mr Maude has now written back to Sir Gus complaining that he had left too many questions unanswered.

He challenged the Cabinet Secretary to open up McBride's email account to see who else he had corresponded with. 'He (Sir Gus) says he's been given assurances that no one else was involved,' said one source.

'He seems to accept that this was some kind of rogue operation. We are not convinced of that.

'One way of seeing whether this was the tip of the iceberg is for Gus O'Donnell to take a view by having a look at Damian McBride's email account.'

In his letter, Sir Gus said that the behaviour of McBride, Mr Brown's former head of strategy, fell 'far short' of the public's expectations. 'It cannot and has not been tolerated.'

Downing Street has been in crisis since McBride was forced to quit in disgrace after drawing up the false smears.

The proposed campaign has led to widespread criticism of the Prime Minister's use of a shadowy cabal to undermine opponents.

Mr Brown, who has faced attacks on his leadership style from a string of former Labour ministers, is due to break his silence on the affair today as the Cabinet meets in Scotland.

George Osborne, one of the victims of the smears, last night called on the Prime Minister to apologise personally.

SPIN ON SPIN, ON SPIN? Lie after lie after lie this is British political to day in England and very few of the English care that their country is going down the pan? They see the messages daily but turn a blind eye to freighted to stand up for their rights