Just days before Labour politicians head to Liverpool for the party’s annual conference, a story about Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has been dominating headlines. It emerged that the Labour Together founder’s lawyer advised Morgan McSweenet that he should mark £700,000 of undisclosed donations as an ‘admin error’, according to a leaked document from 2021 published by the Conservatives on Tuesday. But today, the Electoral Commission has announced it will not be probing the case. How interesting…

Over the time McSweeney ran the think tank, more than £700,000 of donations were not properly registered – including a whopping £100,000 gifted to the think tank while McSweeney was running Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign in 2020. After McSweeney stepped down from the role, his successor

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