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Cabinet Minister Under Investigation Over Labour Together’s Journalist Smear Campaign

Novara Live

Novara Media

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Labour Together’s journalist smear campaign.

Plus: The latest on Palestine Action, EU countries fall for hoax video of Francesca Albanese, and Former Norwegian PM in hot water following more revelations from the Epstein files.

With Steven Methven, Kieran Andrieu & Laura Webster.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Novara Live.

0:05.0

Coming up tonight, we've got an investigation into Labour together

0:10.0

and what looks like a smear campaign run against journalists.

0:14.0

It's been treated as a new investigation, but as we'll discuss,

0:16.0

it was actually broken by an independent newspaper quite a few months ago. We'll be looking at

0:22.0

Yvette Cooper, former Home Secretary's reaction to last week's historic ruling that found her

0:27.7

prescription of Palestine action unlawful. And Francesca Albanese seems to be the subject of a

0:34.4

disinformation campaign, and many countries are falling for it.

0:39.3

I'm Stephen Methon, and tonight I'm joined by Kieran Andre.

0:43.3

Kieran, nice to see. How are you?

0:45.3

I am very well, Stephen, and given that many have said that we resemble one another,

0:52.3

I am happy to reveal to the audience

0:55.4

that you and I are doing our own genealogical tests

0:58.0

to see whether, in fact,

1:00.0

I am your Palestinian half-brother from another mother.

1:04.2

Yeah, I mean, I think we were both a little surprised

1:06.7

by the revelation that we are indistinguishable,

1:10.4

but I can tell you how to tell us apart. I am the one

1:12.6

with the glow in the dark February skin and Kieran has the lovely, lovely Mediterranean glow.

1:20.8

That's the way. Too kind. I don't agree, but thank you. Right. Before we get into our first story tonight,

1:26.7

in the past few weeks, we've seen just how quickly the news cycle can change.

1:30.3

And it often feels challenging, even for us, to keep up to date with all of the content being made.

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