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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jamie Grierson and Kiran Stacey

Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists

Morgan McSweeney walking on Downing Street.
Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s top aide, ran Labour Together but left in 2020. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

A thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources, documents suggest.

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