Emails and WhatsApp messages reveal exchanges with ministers when he was president of Global Counsel

Text messages between the Labour peer and Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney are said to be included

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Ministers were braced for embarrassing revelations ahead of the publication of the files on Monday afternoon