Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney ‘paid firm to investigate journalists’

Labour Together allegedly hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations

A thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister's chief of staff is alleged to have paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding.

Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources, according to claims in the Substack publication Democracy for Sale.