The Conspiracy To SILENCE Labour Critics

Quick Overview

Labour Together, the organization linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and founded by the recently resigned Morgan Mweeny, hired the US PR firm APCO to discredit journalists Gabriel Pogrand and Harry York, after they reported Labour Together failed to declare £700,000 in funding, with the smear campaign including false claims that reporting was based on Russian hacks and targeting Pogrand's Jewish faith.

Key Points: Labour Together commissioned APCO, a US-based PR firm, to investigate the sourcing and funding of a Sunday Times article that exposed their failure to declare £700,000 in donations between 2017 and 2020, a period when Morgan Mweeny was company secretary. The APCO report falsely claimed the Sunday Times reporting was based on Russian hacks and personally attacked journalist Gabriel Pogrand, suggesting his reporting on the Royal Family was "in the interests of Russia's strategic foreign policy objectives." Josh Simons, then head of Labour Together and now a minister in Starmer's government, commissioned the APCO report, which included open-source and human intelligence investigation specifically tasked to proactively undermine future attacks. Investigative journalist Paul Holden, who provided evidence to the Sunday Times and authored 'The Fraud of Keir Starmer, Morgan Mweeny and the Crisis of British Democracy,' experienced shocking and upsetting material probing into his private life as part of this campaign. Simons also pressed UK intelligence (NCSC) to investigate Paul Holden, falsely alleging he was handling Russian hacks, based partly on Holden's partner's father, Andrew Murray, being an adviser to Jeremy Corbyn. The undeclared £730,000 in donations to Labour Together was allegedly used to wage an undeclared war against the Labour Party's left wing and to pay for polling that helped construct Keir Starmer's leadership pitch. Holden revealed that Labour Together, under Josh Simons, reawakened to fund campaigns for nearly 100 incoming Labour MPs, including Mweeny's wife, linking the organization's current government preparation to past financial wrongdoing.