Nobody understands the electoral cost of failing to tackle the migrant crisis more than Sir Keir Starmer’s powerful right-hand man Morgan McSweeney.
Hailed as a genius strategist, he was bending his boss’s ear about it more than a year ago.
We need to be tough from the start, the Irishman told the future Prime Minister in a memo. Regain control of borders, he said, smash the gangs, tackle small boats – noble exhortations Sir Keir would later parrot.
Failure to address these issues, McSweeney warned, risked handing future victory to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Softly spoken and little known outside Westminster, McSweeney, 48, masterminded Labour’s election victory, though with Labour lurching from crisis to crisis his stock has shrunk of late.
