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News - 22 September 2025

Campaign to ‘sabotage’ Corbyn coming back to bite Morgan McSweeney

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Willem Moore

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On 20 September, the Daily Mail reported that Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is “facing the threat of a police investigation”. There are claims that Morgan McSweeney supported Starmer’s political ambitions by hiding £700k+ in political donations to the Labour Together group. While these donations were eventually declared, its alleged new evidence shows the excuses given for their late submission were bogus.

The Mail additionally noted the following (emphasis added):

The Tories say they have obtained private legal advice to Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s most powerful aide, which points to a deliberate attempt to mislead the Electoral Commission over money given to Labour Together – the think-tank which played a key role in bringing down Jeremy Corbyn and putting Starmer into power.

This chain of events being openly discussed in the media has caused a stir amongst those who wanted Labour to win in the 2017 and 2019 elections:

McSweeney: ‘dozens of donations’ undeclared

The Mail piece noted that McSweeney failed to report “dozens of donations”. His replacement later discovered the undeclared donations and submitted them to the Electoral Commission, resulting in a £14,250 fine. The Mail added:

Now, in a letter to the Electoral Commission, Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake said the party has new information to justify the commission ‘initiating a formal inquiry and then to refer the incident to the police’ relating to ‘the breach of political finance laws’…

Mr Hollinrake said Mr McSweeney was advised that Labour Together should blame the non-reporting of donations on an administration error.

But the Tory chairman believed the donations weren’t declared to protect the donors’ identities.

McSweeney is a close ally of Peter Mandelson, and is believed to have been instrumental in putting him in the ambassador role. As the National reported:

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, and close ally of Mandelson, reportedly pushed hard for the Labour peer to get the job despite concerns within the party over his friendship with the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

McSweeney has also reportedly been blamed for the delay in sacking the Labour grandee as he advised the Prime Minister that he should stick by Mandelson despite others in the party calling for him to go.

One source told Politico: “Everyone was like, this is looking really bad for the Prime Minister and Morgan was like, no, we need to defend him.”

According to the latest reporting, the new home secretary Shabana Mahmood was:

involved in discussions over why the political funding watchdog was not told about huge amounts of cash being given to Morgan McSweeney’s Labour Together group as required by law.

All coming out now

Figures on the left have reacted to this ‘breaking’ scandal:

It’s not the only story which the media has allegedly sat on:

Figures on the left have drawn attention to McSweeney and Labour Together for some time:

McSweeney’s murky history of targeting the Left

The Canary has reported extensively on the Labour right’s efforts to prevent a Labour government between 2015 and 2019. This includes coverage of the ‘Labour Leaks’ in 2020, as Ed Sykes reported:

A number of shocking revelations have come to light thanks to the Labour Leaks scandal. These include high-level Labour staffers apparently seeking to undermine both the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and the party’s election campaign in 2017.

Also:

Perhaps the biggest Labour Leaks scandal for members and supporters, however, is the allegation that senior figures at Labour HQ actively undermined the party’s almost-victorious 2017 election campaign. The report claims, for example, that these people “openly worked against the aims and objectives of the leadership of the Party, and in the 2017 general election some key staff even appeared to work against the Party’s core objective of winning elections”.

These Labour insiders also targeted the Canary, as John McEvoy wrote in 2019:

On 2 August 2019, an anonymous internet campaign named Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN) celebrated its apparent success in downsizing The Canary. For six months, SFFN had been trying to demonetise The Canary by lobbying companies to remove advertisements from its website.

The Canary can now reveal that Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, launched the organisation that now runs SFFN.

In September 2024, the Canary reported on a Guardian piece which reported that McSweeney had a vendetta against his own party and the Canary:

In a bizarre turn of events, the Guardian/Observer has revealed that Labour Party PM Keir Starmer’s top Downing Street aide Morgan McSweeney plotted to ‘destroy the Canary‘ – before ‘we destroyed the Labour right’. It shows not only how him and his closest cronies tried to kill us – but also how they brought about Jeremy Corbyn’s downfall. The intention all along? To install Starmer as Labour leader, and eventually PM.

That piece noted how McSweeney and SFFN used allegations of ‘antisemitism’ to attack Corbyn and the Canary, but as noted:

It goes without saying none of our content was racist or fake. An independent investigation by government-approved media regulator IMPRESS found nothing the Canary published was antisemitic.

However, what McSweeney did achieve was to tarnish the Canary’s reputation. Of course, he also achieved his ultimate goal of destroying Corbyn’s leadership and getting Keir Starmer into power. Now, McSweeney sits at the top of 10 Downing Street as head of political strategy.

That article finished on the following:

Despite having the weight of a now-government fighting against us, the Canary is still here. McSweeney certainly didn’t destroy us – although it has been touch and go (not all due to him). It also didn’t destroy Corbyn and everything he, us, and so many of you stand for.

If anything, McSweeney started a chain of events that will be near-impossible to undo: the collapse of the two-party system in the UK as well as public trust in politics.

When the Canary made this prediction, the two-party system was still evident in polling:

This is what polling looks like today:

Backlash as it’s all coming back to bite McSweeney

Increasingly, McSweeney is being blamed for Labour’s failing fortunes. Following the sacking of Peter Mandelson, it was reported that an unnamed government minister questioned if it was “sustainable” for McSweeney to stay in post:

Following Labour’s aborted attempt to cut disability benefits earlier this year, the Guardian reported that Labour MPs blamed McSweeney for ‘failing to listen’. One anonymous MP said:

They just kept saying that MPs were in a different place from the public on benefit cuts and we’d just have to tough it out. But we speak to our constituents all the time and many of them are terrified. They just don’t get it.

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