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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Morgan McSweeney will not face new donations investigation, says watchdog

McSweeney wearing a blue suit with a Downing Street pass around his neck
McSweeney left his role at Labour Together in April 2020 to become a senior aide to Starmer. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s beleaguered chief of staff, will not face another investigation into undeclared donations to the Labour Together thinktank, the elections watchdog has said.

The Electoral Commission said it had found “no evidence of any other potential offences” by the thinktank formerly led by McSweeney, which was previously fined in 2021.

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