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Coco Kahn

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Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

So now the prime minister has ordered the cabinet office to investigate the cabinet office minister, Josh Simons, who used to be the head of Labour Together.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

So that's the cabinet office investigating a cabinet minister.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

Not sure an internal investigation is necessarily going to quiet the concerns over what's happened here.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

They hadn't declared some of their donations to the Electoral Commission.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

Right.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

It does seem weird, but it's worse than that because the donations element of it was, of course, a smoking gun.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

Like, there's rules around that.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

That's not really OK.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

And it is worth saying that the Electoral Commission did find that they definitely did do that.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

Right.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

But there was also conversations being had about how Labour Together were reshaping the Labour Party to completely push out the left and kind of irreversibly take Labour more right-wing

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

than it has ever been, which would obviously be very sad for a party that's been so instrumental in social good.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

You know, hasn't gone far enough in many places, but has been instrumental in a social good in this country.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

So it's sort of a little bit bananas, really.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

So just to give you a little bit of an insight into what APCO found.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

So Josh Simmons said that he asked the firm to look into an illegal hack.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

Well, they wondered whether the way that these journalists had found out about these donations was because they had been hacked.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

And so they wondered if whether the journalists had received this information and that was why.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

Now, obviously, the journalist and Paul himself said on our show that this was completely ludicrous.

Pod Save the UK
142: Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform

So the BBC reported that this report included information about Pogran's Jewish beliefs.