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Pod Save the UK · McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson · 12 Feb 2026 podcast

They didn't report to the nations.

That is plainly illegal.

The Electoral Commission gave them effectively what's a slap on the wrist and gave them a £14,500 fine and did nothing more, which I think is an outrage.

Yeah.

And the excuse or the explanation that Labour Together gives at the time is that this was just the administrative oversight that effectively they forgot.

And I came across documents which then fed into the Sunday Times story, which made me think, well, maybe that story doesn't entirely stack up.

So the evidence that I discovered, right, is pretty straightforward.

I did an FOI to the Electoral Commission, Freedom of Information Request to the Electoral Commission.

What it shows is that in November 2017, Morgan McSweeney called the Electoral Commission and said, look, I don't want to report donations.

We're not publicly campaigning.

Please, can you advise?

And the Electoral Commission writes back to him and says, no, you are a members association.

You have to report to the nation.

This is how you do it.

And they have this extensive correspondence with the really damning document, the absolutely killer document for me.

It's this email between a guy called Gerald Chumash and Morgan McSweeney.

Gerald Chumash is a solicitor, very closely connected to the Labour Party.

He's now Lord Gerald Chumash because he was put into the House of Lords by Keir Starmer.

And he's advising Labour together how to manage this investigation by the Electoral Commission.

And it's a really interesting damning document where it seems on its surface that they are discussing internally within Labour Together whether they should tell the full truth to the Electoral Commission, whether they should be candid in their responses, right?

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