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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin and Athena Stavrou

Cabinet Office probes Labour group over journalists’ smear campaign as PM backs investigation

The Cabinet Office is looking into a Labour think tank’s investigation into journalists, a minister has said, amid calls for Sir Keir Starmer to order an inquiry.

The Prime Minister said he “didn’t know anything about” the probe, said to have been carried out by PR firm Apco Worldwide after it was hired by Labour Together following stories about the campaign group’s failure to declare more than £700,000 in donations.

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