Paul Holden
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Feb
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Pod Save the UK · McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson · 12 Feb 2026
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Which is really pretty damning stuff.
And it's the basis on which I think the Electoral Commission needs to reopen this investigation.
Right.
Now, this is what I think is the background to being targeted.
What I do know, and what Peter Gagin's incredible sub-stack, Democracy for Sale, and obviously Peter Gagin's a great journalist, he's really dug into the story and found stuff that I didn't even know about.
And one of the things that was done, which is this extraordinary, extraordinary story, is that Labour Together reported me to the security services.
They wrote to what's called the National Cybercrime Security Center.
We said, we think that this journalist, Paul Holden, is the recipient of Russian or Chinese state-sponsored hacks.
Seriously, there's like zero truth to the allegation whatsoever.
So John McDonald has called for an inquiry.
It made me furious, this idea that these people could be so reckless and
as to just wield this allegation willy-nilly with such potentially profound impacts on people's lives.
But more than that, I think the story needed to be out there.
The story needed to be out there before the election.
People needed to know what the nature of this political project was.
And I think that's one of the issues that we really face now is this deep sense of confusion that people have
about why is this Labour government like this?
Why is it prescribing Palestine action?
Why is it being so horrific to asylum seekers and migrants?
Why did it cut the winter fuel allowance?
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