Well, well, well. The spotlight is back on Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – and not in a good way. It transpires that the Labour Together founder’s lawyer advised him that he should mark £700,000 of undisclosed donations as an ‘admin error’, according to a leaked document from 2021 published by the Conservatives yesterday. How curious…
The revelation comes after Labour Together, the pro-Starmer think tank, was fined £14,250 in 2021 for more than 20 breaches of electoral law. McSweeney was the director of the organisation between 2017 and 2020 and is now under fire over this latest development. More than £700,000 of donations were not properly registered, with £100,000 gifted to the think tank while McSweeney was running Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign in 2020. (Mr