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Labour failed to prepare for power, says Morgan McSweeney
McSweeney said Labour lacked a clear plan for governing and admitted the winter fuel payment cut damaged the party early in office.
- Former Downing Street chief of staff Morgan McSweeney admitted in a BBC interview that Labour failed to properly prepare for government before the 2024 general election win.
- Labour leaders failed to discuss how the modern era differed from their last time in power, leaving them without a strategy for rapid delivery. McSweeney noted the state is "really out of shape and is unable to deliver for people."
- Admitting to early errors, McSweeney cited cutting winter fuel allowance for ten million pensioners as a "politically damaging mistake" set at "too low a level," and acknowledged damage from a row over donor-funded minister freebies.
- Resigning earlier this year over Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador, McSweeney told the BBC he found Sir Keir Starmer's departure "very sad" and was "still processing" events.
- Moving away from British politics, McSweeney said he is "professionally moving in a completely different direction now," expressing interest in democratic security, AI's impact, and geopolitical tech risks.
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“Hailed as a political genius by some”, Morgan McSweeney was seen as a “Machiavellian puppeteer manipulating a compliant” Keir Starmer on his journey from Labour Party leader in 2020 to prime minister in 2024, said Patrick Cockburn in The i Paper.Yet in his first interviews since appearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee in April, two months after quitting as Starmer’s chief of staff, McSweeney claimed the party failed to prepare adequately…
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Total News Sources17
Leaning Left8Leaning Right1Center6Last UpdatedBias Distribution53% Left
Bias Distribution
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C 40%
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