Starmer’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney is under more pressure this morning as the Tories publish correspondence from a Labour Party solicitor advising the former Labour Together chief on how to handle a failure to report over £700,000 of donations appropriately. Quite a leak…
Gerald Shamash posed questions to McSweeney in 2021 and outlined his strategy to deal with the Electoral Commission, which was pursuing action against Labour Together:
“In terms of any sanction by the EC, I am trying to steer them towards agreeing an enforcement undertaking – this essentially is where LT accepts the muddle and arranges and agrees a tight set of governance conditions with the EC. That would be an excellent outcome and would I hope minimise publicity… We have tried to winkle out of the EC whether they have a record of your conversation with them in early 2018 without raising their suspicions. They have a record of a number of calls with LT but none with you… It may be better if LT cannot deal substantively with questions I pose then perhaps best to simply base our case as to the non‐reporting down as admin error.”
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden defended McSweeney on Sky News:
“I can see the why the Tories want to make as much of this as they can and they they want you to be asking me and other Labour spokespeople about it but the Electoral Commission which is the body which is charged with policing donations, declarations, everything of this – They looked into these issues three, four years ago. They took action at the time and they issued a statement last night making clear that was the case.”
Gerald Shamash was elevated to the House of Lords in March 2024. The Electoral Commission is reviewing a call from the Tories to reopen its investigation after Labour Together was fined for the misreporting “admin error.” The McIaveli looking increasingly beleaguered post-Mandelson…
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