I’m “Very Dangerous”, Says Starmer’s Key Aide
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I am very dangerous, apparently. |
| 0:03.2 | Ooh, well, that is according to Morgan McSweeney, |
| 0:06.1 | who is the former Chief of Staff to Keir Stama, |
| 0:08.9 | who is, for now, the Prime Minister. |
| 0:11.7 | Morgan McSvini, of course, was forced to resign |
| 0:13.7 | over the appointment of Peter Mandelson, |
| 0:16.2 | the associate close friend of the late Peter Fowl, Geoff Eppstein. |
| 0:21.8 | Now, how do I know that Morgan McSweeney called me very dangerous? |
| 0:24.9 | Because it's contained in an email from Morgan McSweeney, which is in a 42-page document |
| 0:29.3 | that has been released to me after I submitted a subject access request for all the data |
| 0:34.7 | kept on me by Labour Together, the supposed think tank once run |
| 0:38.5 | by McSweeney with the purpose of defeating Jamie Corbyn's leadership and smashing the Labour left. |
| 0:44.2 | Now, I'm going to go through the information in my subject access report because it has some |
| 0:48.8 | absolutely fascinating bits of information, I would say, to say the least. Under McSweeney's leadership, little recap, Labor |
| 0:56.0 | Together received £730,000 worth of donations from millionaire venture capitalists and businessmen |
| 1:02.8 | between 2017. That's, you know, the election year when Jamie Corbyn's Labour Party got 40% of |
| 1:10.1 | a vote and deprived the |
| 1:11.1 | choice of the majority and 2020. And it failed to declare those donations, leading the Electoral |
| 1:18.3 | Commission to fine the organisation and find it guilty of over 20 individual breaches of electoral |
| 1:23.8 | law. Now, the brilliant investigative journalist, Paul Holden, has done incredible work |
| 1:28.1 | on Labour Together, not least in his book The Ford. I thought I had it somewhere. Dagnam it. |
| 1:33.9 | Well, anyway, oh, I do. Yes. Get it. Get a copy. Very good. Brilliant stuff. Now, it led Labor |
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