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FOUND: 5 - What They Never Told You

The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 – Starmer has nowhere to hide

He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet Office looking into Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists

Liz Kendall says officials will be ‘establishing the facts’ about report that made false claims about journalists

The Guardian - UK

Starmer urged to investigate links between Government and ‘creepy spy scandal’

A think tank is said to have hired a PR firm to investigate reporters to identify their sources for stories about campaign funding breaches.

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

Labour Together, which helped the prime minister’s election to become party leader, reportedly paid £36,000 for the probe

The Independent UK

Starmer facing calls for inquiry into Labour thinktank’s investigation of journalists

Cabinet Office minister commissioned report that made ‘baseless claims’ about reporters who were investigating Labour Together

The Guardian - UK

‘Keir Starmer doesn’t do anything but U-turns’: the bleak mood in Makerfield

Many in ‘red wall’ seat of Josh Simons, a staunch ally of the PM, have had enough of Labour – and its leader

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet minister accused of hiring PR agency to investigate journalists’ sources

Josh Simons denies asking for reporters to be investigated in probe over leaked details on think tank’s funding

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Minister commissioned investigation of journalists looking into Labour thinktank

Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when director of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

The Guardian - UK

‘Pestering for a role’: how Mandelson talked his way back into the Labour fold

Officials, MPs and other insiders recall a need for clarity and Blair-era frisson before election – even if Sue Gray was wary

The Guardian - UK

Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists

Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest

The Guardian - UK

EA to spend millions clearing Oxfordshire illegal waste mountain in break with policy

Announcement draws anger from Labour MP over refusal to remove tonnes of rubbish dumped near school in Wigan

The Guardian - UK

Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste

Exclusive: ‘extremely unhelpful’ policy seen as deterrent to clearing thousands of dump sites across England

The Guardian - UK

Ministers could give mayors control of schools and hospitals in devolution shake-up

Exclusive: Steve Reed, backed by Labour Together, wants to devolve control over more local services

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer hands loyal Scottish Labour MPs top Government jobs – see full list

A HOST of Scottish Labour loyalists – including a former Better Together chief and the wife of Keir Starmer’s top strategist – have been given…

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Former Better Together chief Blair McDougall handed Government job

FORMER Better Together chief Blair McDougall has been given a Government job in the aftermath of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet reshuffle.

Evening Standard

MP calls for knighthood for rugby league ‘hero’ Billy Boston

Labour MP for Makerfield Josh Simons said it ‘is a scandal that for over a century, no rugby football league hero has received a knighthood’.

The National (Scotland)

Labour MPs rake in over £300,000 from donors linked to private healthcare firms

LABOUR MPs have raked in over £300,000 from donors linked to private healthcare amid the party’s push for further NHS privatisation, The Sunday…

The National (Scotland)

Anas Sarwar humiliated as 'fringe' figure given Labour Government role

A LABOUR MP who shot to prominence after saying people smugglers should be sent to Scotland has been given a leg up in his political career – just…

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The Guardian - UK

Westminster’s reliance on Elon Musk’s X is ‘totally wrong’, says Labour MP

Exclusive: Josh Simons, close ally of Starmer, suggests Musk manipulates platform’s algorithm to boost his own interests

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public services

About 70 colleagues have written to chancellor ahead of budget pleading for her to commit to rewriting fiscal rules

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Labour's words called 'completely hollow' following controversial donations

SCOTTISH Labour's words have been called “completely hollow” as they attempted to distance themselves from a controversial think tank while…

The National (Scotland)

Labour MP 'grateful' for five-figure donation from controversial 'fringe' think tank

A LABOUR MP has said he is “grateful” to receive a five-figure donation from an organisation which proposed shipping gangs smuggling asylum…

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Labour being 'bankrolled' by group Anas Sarwar described as 'fringe'

A THINK tank once described by Anas Sarwar as being on the “fringe” of his party is bankrolling Scottish Labour, it has been revealed.

The Guardian - UK

Ex-MP Jonathan Ashworth named as new boss of Labour Together thinktank

Exclusive: Former shadow cabinet minister who lost his seat last week replaces Josh Simons who was elected

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Morgan McSweeney: the Labour power list as Sue Gray resigns

As Sue Gray exits, read our ultimate guide to the most influential figures in the Labour government

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