Cabinet office marking it's own homework, and Josh Simons should be suspended until further notice imho...
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Investigating journalists for being journalists, and now we've got the Labour cabinet office marking it's own homework, more pressure on Keir to come clean over this...
Documents seen by the Guardian suggest APCO was hired in 2023, when Simons ran Labour Together, after the Sunday Times had published an investigation into the organisation that alleged McSweeney had failed to declare more than £700,000 in donations to the thinktank between 2017 and 2020. The money is said to have paid for polling and campaigning that supported Starmer’s rise to the Labour leadership.
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A thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources, documents suggest.
A memo produced for Labour Together, first reported by the Substack publication Democracy For Sale, lists journalists who are viewed as “significant persons of interest” over articles about undeclared donations during McSweeney’s time at the thinktank. It adds: “It is important to identify the source of the information and to ascertain what additional information could be published.”
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Investigating journalists for being journalists, and now we've got the Labour cabinet office marking it's own homework, more pressure on Keir to come clean over this...
Documents seen by the Guardian suggest APCO was hired in 2023, when Simons ran Labour Together, after the Sunday Times had published an investigation into the organisation that alleged McSweeney had failed to declare more than £700,000 in donations to the thinktank between 2017 and 2020. The money is said to have paid for polling and campaigning that supported Starmer’s rise to the Labour leadership.
Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest
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A thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources, documents suggest.
A memo produced for Labour Together, first reported by the Substack publication Democracy For Sale, lists journalists who are viewed as “significant persons of interest” over articles about undeclared donations during McSweeney’s time at the thinktank. It adds: “It is important to identify the source of the information and to ascertain what additional information could be published.”
