PM orders ethics investigation into minister over Labour Together claims

Labour Together’s ‘smear campaign’ against journalists

Keir Starmer will ask his independent ethics adviser to investigate whether Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons breached the ministerial code, amid allegations he was involved in a smear campaign targeting journalists.Simons was director of the Labour Together think tank when it allegedly paid a PR firm thousands of pounds to investigate the personal, religious and political backgrounds of journalists who were digging into how its undeclared fun…

Scottish Labour MP Leishman says Starmer's faction up to "some dark sh*t"

There are still just a handful of decent people in the Labour Party, though few and far between. Alloa and Grangemouth’s union-backed Brian Leishman is one. Leishman: calling it out In the Commons on Monday 23 february, Leishman challenged Starmer for his broken promise (one of so, so many) to clean up politics. He then pointed out that the people who scammed Starmer into the Labour top seat and, with the help of Reform, into Number 10 have been…

British PM Starmer refers minister to ethics adviser over smear claims

It followed allegations that a think tank Mr Josh Simons ran paid for a probe into the background of critical journalists. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ethics watchdog to investigate minister Josh Simons over think tank allegations

Labour Together is accused of paying PR firm Apco Worldwide £36,000 to look into the background of journalists in 2023.

Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser to probe minister over targeting of journalists

Laurie Magnus will investigate whether Cabinet Office Minister Josh Simons breached ethics rules.

PM orders ethics investigation into minister over Labour Together claims

Josh Simons ran the think tank when it commissioned a report which investigated the background of a journalist.