Nish Kumar

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How does it feel to be described as Morgan McSweeney's unofficial biographer?

So, Paul, he's resigned.

Yes.

And he's taken full responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson.

Can you give us a kind of potted history of McSweeney and how he ends up being the kind of chief strategist credited with delivering the Labour election victory?

And we've seen Steve Reid, you know, at the Labour Party conference distributing red hats and talking about construction and parroting the build, baby, build Trump catchphrase.

Indeed.

And we've seen Shabana Mahmood, you know, defend her draconian immigration reforms by claiming that as a person of South Asian descent and the Home Secretary she has essentially carte blanche to...

bring in whatever immigration reforms she feels.

That's my perception of what she was saying.

The fraud that you're referring to also contains elements of financial fraud as well, right?

So you collaborated with the Sunday Times in 2023 on an article that reported that Labour Together, when it was run by McSweeney, failed to declare donations worth more than £730,000 between 2017 and 2020 to the Electoral Commission.

Mm-hmm.