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Sep 30, 2026
Helen MacNamaraHOST
I was, did a panel early, earlier on with Jonathan Ashworth.
Helen MacNamaraHOST
Uh, he used to run Labour Together and was, worked for Gordon Brown.
Helen MacNamaraHOST
Was an MP.
Cleo WatsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Mark SteelHOST
I looked up and it was on the news.
Mark SteelHOST
About three minutes later, I noticed that the very man who was standing down in Makerfield in order to... caused the by-election that would mean Andy Burnham would come into Parliament, where it was obvious he was then going to try and become Prime Minister very quickly, was one of the people in Labour Together that was working with Morgan McSweeney, Josh Simons.
Mark SteelHOST
And I thought, right, well now that's confusing.
Paul HoldenGUEST
Yeah, well, this is a story, isn't it? I mean, basically what happens is that, you know, in 2023, this must have been about August 2023.
Paul HoldenGUEST
What I had no idea of at the time, we now know a lot more details of, is that as soon as that story comes out, Labor Together, Josh Simons, who Josh Simons is then the director of Labor Together, hires this firm called Apco Worldwide, which is like the sort of firm that BAE Systems or a tobacco firm will hire to deal with a whistleblower.
Paul HoldenGUEST
They're like dustbusters and reputation managers.
Paul HoldenGUEST
And APCO Worldwide then signed this contract with Labour Together.
Paul HoldenGUEST
Labour Together pays them £30,000 to develop what they call a package of materials to proactively undermine my reporting.
Owen JonesGUEST
Oh, absolutely.
Owen JonesGUEST
Morgan McSweeney, his chief of staff and who ran his leadership campaign, the whole point of the think tank Labour Together, which he was in charge of, was to try and get together as much research about the Labour membership as possible in order to con them into voting for a candidate who would then destroy the left.
Owen JonesGUEST
Because Morgan McSweeney ran Liz Kendall's leadership campaign back in 2015 and she got four and a half percent.
Owen JonesGUEST
So Morgan McSweeney concluded, well, that didn't work.
Mark SteelHOST
for people who don't know, so Morgan McSweeney was someone who very few people will have known the name of.
Mark SteelHOST
But he was the, what was his official title? The founder of Labour Together, a group in the Labour Party.
Paul HoldenGUEST
So he was the director of Labour Together of 2017 to 2020.
Paul HoldenGUEST
And he
Mark SteelHOST
commanded Keir Starmer's campaign to become leader of the Labour Party.
Mark SteelHOST
And so a question here then is how much was Peter Mandelson involved in this?
Paul HoldenGUEST
That is another million dollar question, right? So we know that McSweeney is friendly with Mandelson, right? We know that they are in the same party political faction.
Paul HoldenGUEST
I found, you know, we've done, just done, you know, Jeremy Corbyn did a subject access request to Labour together recently, and we've got some that uncovered some emails between Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney, which shows that Peter Mandelson was writing to Morgan McSweeney in March 2020, saying, I've been asked to write an article for Politics Home.
James O'MalleyHOST
But now let's get to this week's guest, Martin.
James O'MalleyHOST
I've been talking to James Howard from Think Labour, who's been basically advocating that we should recreate a system of municipal bond markets.
James O'MalleyHOST
It's a very interesting policy proposal and very relevant to our interests.
James O'MalleyHOST
So yeah, here's my chat with James.
James O'MalleyHOST
So I'm delighted to be joined now by James Howard, the Director of Policy at Think Labour.
James O'MalleyHOST
You've been writing some really fascinating stuff recently, all about bonds and markets and high finance.
James O'MalleyHOST
So James, before we get to your big idea, the thing that you want to advocate for, could you just tell us in simple terms, why is it that whenever we talk about anything in British politics, and especially when it comes to sort of building things, the thing we want to do on Uppercut, we want Britain to build more infrastructure and things like that.
Bridget ConleyHOST
Andrew, I'm curious with this book and with your previous research, have you had any of these powerful actors come after you or Shadow World Investigations?
Andrew FeinsteinGUEST
So we've discovered recently that my colleague Paul Holden and I have been under surveillance and investigation by an entity called Labour Together in the United Kingdom, which is very close to the ruling Labour Party.
Andrew FeinsteinGUEST
They have been surveilling and investigating us over a period of years.
Andrew FeinsteinGUEST
Over the years that we've done this work, we've certainly had threats from individual arms dealers, from oligarchs who first threatened us and then tried to bribe us.
Don McGowanHOST
Shit.
Don McGowanHOST
The Labour Together report hasn't come out yet.
Sal DodgsonHOST
No.
Sal DodgsonHOST
But it
Don McGowanHOST
Which...
Don McGowanHOST
Who was it? Somebody made a comment on Twitter yesterday about Starmer's timing.
Don McGowanHOST
And it got me thinking about the Labour Together report now.
Don McGowanHOST
The Labour Together report should reveal that Labour Together also took dodgy donations.