US EditionInvestigation launched into claims Labour campaign group hired lobbyists to probe journalists
Keir Starmer ordered an investigation after reports revealed Labour Together paid £36,000 to APCO Worldwide to probe journalists covering undeclared donations and campaign finance breaches.
- The Cabinet Office will be "looking at the facts" around Labour Together, a group that helped elect Keir Starmer as Labour leader, after it was accused of commissioning a report that investigated the background of journalists.
- Labour Together paid APCO Worldwide at least £30,000 to "investigate the sourcing, funding and origins" of a Sunday Times story about undeclared donations before the 2024 general election.
- Minister Josh Simons, who commissioned the report when he was head of Labour Together, said APCO Worldwide had gone beyond what was asked by including unnecessary information on Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund.
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PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Labour Together, led by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, is facing investigation for hiring U.S. lobbyists to do opposition research on journalists behind a critical Sunday Times article.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Labour Together, U.S. lobbying firm APCO, journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke, and leading Labour Party figures including Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer.WHEN…
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