This is The Guardian.

Today, how Kirstarmer's favourite think tank smeared journalists just doing their job.

Back in February 2021, I was a 23-year-old freelance journalist.

I left university, had got a job, and had just started writing.

And I had done a lot of stories going through records.

I had nothing else better to do.

This is Henry Dyer, one of the Guardian's investigations correspondence. If you're a regular listener, then you will recognize his voice from episodes

we've made about corruption in the House of Lords and Boris Johnson's Secret Files. He's like

one of those journalists you see in films, always surrounded by papers, taking whispered phone

calls, and spending hours and hours wading

through spreadsheets and databases.

He's always been like that, even as a callow youth trying to get his big break in the media.

In early 2021, I was going through more electoral commission records, and I spotted that

this group, Labour Together, had declared hundreds of thousands of

pounds of donations. More than 700,000 pounds, in fact, mostly donated by two very rich men,

all declared years after they'd actually been donated, a clear breach of electoral commission

rules. Now, the rules say you've got to declare

your donations within 30 days, so it was clear that these were well overdue. I emailed the Electoral

Commission to ask them why this has all come out now, and they said it's a part of an ongoing

investigation. Henry wrote up a story for a news website called Business Insider. And then he largely forgot about it.

Five years went by.

Kirstama became Prime Minister and Henry got his job with us at The Guardian.

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