#morgan-mcsweeney

#morgan-mcsweeney

"It's not been our finest 24 hours in government," one senior figure in government acknowledged to me, after mudslinging one way and another, some in public, plenty more in private. I have been making loads of phone calls to patch together the anatomy of another bumpy few days for Downing Street: what those close to the Prime Minister hoped to achieve, what ended up happening and where all this leaves them.

The Conservatives have called for an investigation into Keir Starmer's beleaguered chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, after allegations that he tried to mislead the elections watchdog over donations to a Labour thinktank he ran while in opposition. The organisation, Labour Together, was fined 14,250 by the Electoral Commission in 2021 over its handling of almost 740,000 of donations. The Tories have claimed that it used a false excuse of administrative errors.

Morgan McSweeney is the highest paid special adviser, earning between 155,000 and 159,999. Nine others are in the next pay band.