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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.
So that's the cabinet office investigating a cabinet minister.
Not sure an internal investigation is necessarily going to quiet the concerns over what's happened here.
They hadn't declared some of their donations to the Electoral Commission.
Right.
It does seem weird, but it's worse than that because the donations element of it was, of course, a smoking gun.
Like, there's rules around that.
That's not really OK.
And it is worth saying that the Electoral Commission did find that they definitely did do that.
Right.
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
than it has ever been, which would obviously be very sad for a party that's been so instrumental in social good.
You know, hasn't gone far enough in many places, but has been instrumental in a social good in this country.
So it's sort of a little bit bananas, really.
So just to give you a little bit of an insight into what APCO found.
So Josh Simmons said that he asked the firm to look into an illegal hack.
Well, they wondered whether the way that these journalists had found out about these donations was because they had been hacked.
And so they wondered if whether the journalists had received this information and that was why.
Now, obviously, the journalist and Paul himself said on our show that this was completely ludicrous.
So the BBC reported that this report included information about Pogran's Jewish beliefs.