This Latest Labour Scandal Is INSANE
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This new Labour scandal is so wild. |
| 0:03.4 | The allegations are just something else. |
| 0:06.1 | Now, I know you're probably getting a little bit confused about which scandal is which, |
| 0:09.3 | but this is a new scandal. |
| 0:11.0 | It involves accusations involving key labour figures trying to discredit journalists, |
| 0:15.2 | investigating Kirstarmers, deceitful rise to power, |
| 0:19.1 | using a report from a PR firm which sought to discredit them |
| 0:23.3 | by suggesting they were part of a Russian conspiracy or relied on emails hacked by Russia. |
| 0:29.3 | This is the sort of behaviour you would expect from a dictatorship. |
| 0:32.9 | Not an exaggeration. |
| 0:34.1 | In democracies, you're not supposed to get mainstream political parties hiring firms to dig up dirt on journalists scrutinizing you, dirt which smears them as being potentially linked to hostile foreign powers. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, don't worry, everyone. A cabinet office minister implicated is being investigated over it. Guess who's investigating the cabinet office minister? |
| 0:55.5 | The cabinet office. Brilliant stuff. This centres on an outfit called Labour Together. |
| 1:00.8 | Sounds really inclusive, doesn't it? Warm and cuddly. It is none of those things. |
| 1:05.2 | It was supposedly, or is a think tank, which Kirstarmer's former chief of staff, Morgan McSreeny, |
| 1:10.6 | was a director of. That's right. The same Morgan McSweeney, was a director of. |
| 1:11.7 | That's right. |
| 1:12.6 | The same Morgan McSreney who had to resign over the appointment of his mentor, Peter Mandelson, |
| 1:19.1 | as UK ambassador to the US, despite his links to the late Peterfowl, Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:24.8 | What twist? |
| 1:25.9 | This so-called think tank was actually a blunt instrument to crush the left |
| 1:29.2 | and allow Kirstama to take over the Labour Party after a leadership campaign, which was a pack of lies, |
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