Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation Disclosures about Simons’ personal knowledge of the private investigation present another major challenge for Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney. Photograph: Roger Harris/UK Parliament View image in fullscreen Disclosures about Simons’ personal knowledge of the private investigation present another major challenge for Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney. Photograph: Roger Harris/UK Parliament Labour minister commissioned report on journalistsExclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when director of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources A Labour minister commissioned and reviewed a report in 2023 on journalists investigating the thinktank that would help propel Keir Starmer to power, the Guardian has learned.The research was paid for and subsequently reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was director of Labour Together, according to sources and documents seen by the Guardian.Simons is close to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who had previously run Labour Together and whose own role in the operation to gather material on journalists is under scrutiny.In an agreement addressed to Simons, drawn up by the PR firm APCO Worldwide, the firm agreed to “investigate the sourcing, funding and origins” of a November 2023 Sunday Times report about the thinktank, in addition to other journalistic investigations into the…
Published: February 6, 2026 5:44 pm
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