Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest
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A thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources, documents suggest.
A memo produced for Labour Together, first reported by the Substack publication Democracy For Sale, lists journalists who are viewed as “significant persons of interest” over articles about undeclared donations during McSweeney’s time at the thinktank. It adds: “It is important to identify the source of the information and to ascertain what additional information could be published.”
