RAINOW resident and Tatton MP George Osborne has condemned the allegations about himself and his wife made by a former Number 10 advisor as "sad and pathetic".
Both he and ex-Prestbury resident Tory MP Nadine Dorries were named in the controversial smear campaign.
Shadow Chancellor and Tatton MP Osborne said: "In politics you expect a bit of rough – but not this. It’s sad and pathetic what Downing Street was trying to do and it has come back to haunt them. The allegations are untrue. I’m just ignoring them and getting on with the job in hand of being a good Member of Parliament for my constituents."
Dad-of-two George is married to the writer Frances Osborne, and they live in London and Rainow.
Back-bencher MP for mid-Bedfordshire Nadine, formerly of Castle Hill, Prestbury, ran beauty boutique ‘gorgeous’ in the centre of the village, until she sold it in 2005 for a reported £550,000.
An anonymous Prestbury resident said: "I remember she turned the Chocolate Box into a beauty place. It didn’t go down well at all."
Gordon Brown’s aide Damian McBride was forced to resign at the weekend after details of the operation emerged from a leak of emails he sent from his Downing Street account to Labour blogger Derek Draper’s website.
The emails were made public when they came to the attention of Paul Staines, author of the Guido Fawkes blog, who passed them to newspapers.
Mr McBride’s allegations, it has emerged, were without foundation.
He told a national newspaper: "I have already apologised for the inappropriate and juvenile content of my emails, and the offence they have caused."
