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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
John Stevens

Leaked email shows minister used civil servants for attack on Labour in 'rule breach'

Transport Secretary Mark Harper faces questions over whether he has breached the ministerial code after the civil service was hijacked to spread political propaganda.

A leaked email obtained by the Mirror shows that civil servants in the Department for Transport were used to launch an attack on the Labour Party.

The ministerial code states: “Official facilities and resources may not be used for the dissemination of material which is essentially party political.”

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