Interview with Paul Holden: The Conspiracy To Silence Labour Critics
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Michael Walker speaks to journalist Paul Holden, author of ‘The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy’
In this interview, Paul speaks out about the smear campaign against him by Labour Together, with the help of a shady US investment firm.
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| 0:00.0 | Morgan McSweeney may have resigned, but laboured together, the shady organisation he founded, |
| 0:08.0 | and which made Kirstehrm a Prime Minister, is still making headlines. |
| 0:12.0 | Last weekend, the Sunday Times reported the organisation had paid a PR firm to smear two Sunday Times journalists. |
| 0:20.0 | Gabriel Pogrand and Harry York appeared in a 58-page report |
| 0:24.3 | written up by the shady US-based PR firm ACPO, |
| 0:28.2 | and the report was commissioned by the then head of Labor Together, |
| 0:32.1 | Josh Simons, who wanted to discredit the Times reporting on Labor Together, |
| 0:36.9 | failing to declare £700,000 worth of funding. |
| 0:42.4 | The report written by this reputation management company had, without evidence, |
| 0:48.7 | claimed that the reporting in the Sunday Times was based on Russian hacks, |
| 0:53.0 | and it went into particularly personal details about Pogrand, |
| 0:56.6 | referencing his Jewish faith, |
| 0:58.2 | and saying of his previous reporting on the royal family |
| 1:00.8 | that it, quote, could be seen as destabilising to the UK |
| 1:04.5 | and also in the interests of Russia's strategic foreign policy objectives. |
| 1:09.2 | So they were basically calling him a Russian dupe. This set off a whispering campaign in Westminster. |
| 1:14.6 | Then on Friday, there was another splash this time in The Guardian, |
| 1:18.6 | who have uncovered evidence that Josh Simons |
| 1:21.6 | pressed UK intelligence to try and investigate the journalists |
| 1:25.6 | causing problems for his organizations. |
| 1:29.1 | So Simons, who is now a minister in Kirstarmer's government, had asked the spy agency to |
| 1:34.2 | investigate Paul Holden. He's the investigative journalist who had provided the Sunday Times |
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