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Official: Conservative Party spin doctor Andy Coulson was a bully

The Guardian reports that:

“Conservative party spin doctor Andy Coulson presided over a culture of bullying when he was News of the World editor, an employment tribunal has found today in upholding a claim of unfair dismissal against the paper.

Stratford Employment Tribunal upheld former News of the World senior sports writer Matt Driscoll’s claim for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination, with compensation to be determined at a separate hearing early next year…

Coulson resigned as the paper’s editor in January 2007 after the paper’s royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for four months for plotting to intercept messages.

Coulson was appointed Conservative party director of communications in May last year.”

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