Blogging wars and the end of Derek Draper

The Telegraph's front page story ths morning is going to cause a great deal of controversy across the political blogosphere this Easter weekend.

The paper reports that

Downing Street is at the centre of a fresh security scare after it emerged that private emails written by one of Gordon Brown’s senior officials had ended up in the hands of Guido Fawkes.

The paper adds that

The emails, which made a number of unfounded, innuendo-laden suggestions about the private lives of David Cameron, George Osborne and other Conservative MPs

The man in question believes the story to be somewhat of a plant and a continuation of his rtecent battle with Derek Draper and Damian McBride and refutes that he tried to sell the story to the Sunday papers.

Damian McBride is desperately trying to throw a smokescreen up tonight with a planted frontpage story in the Telegraph which downplays what he has been up to. Andrew Porter, the Telegraph’s lobby correspondent, is Damian McBride’s regular drinking companion and tame mouthpiece, so it is no surprise whatsoever to Guido that the Telegraph is being used by Downing Street for damage limitation./blockquote>

Meanwhile Iain Dale also involved in a blogging spat with Mr Draper

This week, Derek Draper's Twitter Feed and any mention of him have been removed from the front page of Labour List. I wonder if that is in preparation for him being dropped altogether.
I await the details of the Sunday papers, but I would be very surprised if either Damian McBride or Derek Draper still had the same job titles on Monday.