Hello and welcome back to page 94's Paul Foot Award shortlist mini series.

Let's find out who is the fourth of the six journalists shortlisted for this year's award.

Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

My name is Peter Gagan and I am the editor of Democracy for Sale.

And what is the story that's brought you to the Paul Foot Awards?

I met the Paul Ford Awards for a story that I did with my colleague,

Khadija Sharif, which was all about how Labour Together,

the campaign group slash think tank behind Kirst Starmar,

had hired a PR firm called APCO to investigate a bunch of journalists

who had been reporting on their

undeclared funding, undeclared funding that was used to power Kyr Starmer's rise to power.

Okay, so quite a significant one. Can you tell us a bit more about Labour together, just for

anyone who hasn't been keeping on top of Starmerite think tanks recently?

If you've not heard of Labor together, they've've actually since the story went out, they've changed their name. I think

this story actually possibly contributed to the change of the name. They're now called as of last

week Think Labor. But basically, Labor Together was the kind of think tank campaign group,

call it what you want, that was set up by various

people after Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership in 2015. It was set up by various people

and various wings of Labour Party, as the name suggests, as a way as a kind of cross-party

organisation, broadly opposed to Corbyn, looking to see where else Labour should go.

Over time, though, a very familiar name to many people became very involved, Morgan McSweeney.

Morgan McSweeney took over as the head of Labour Together, Yemen became Kirstarmer's chief of staff.

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