Inside Croydon

Absolutely huge congrutulations to Khadija Sarife and @PeterKGeoghegan on winning the Paul Foot Award for their work on the Labour Together and APCO scandal, and how it targeted myself, my family, my colleagues at @ShadowWorldInv1 including @andrewfeinstein, as well as journalists like @Gabriel_Pogrund who also suffered APCO and Labour Together's scandalous attentions. Khadija deserves huge credit for her incredible work developing this story, working for years with sources and operating in extreme conditions. Peter's coverage in his brilliant DemocracyForSale was instrumental in breaking the story wide open and exposing how the Labour Together/APCO scandal went to the very top of the Labour Party. I have written multiple times about the Labour Together and APCO scandal, and I won't repeat myself endlessly here. But what I can say is that Khadija was instrumental in alerting me to the scale and content of this scandal, which allowed me, my family and my colleagues to take proactive measures to defend ourselves and our reputations. I am forever grateful for her and Peter's work. @johnmcdonnellMP has recently called for a full Parliamentary inquiry into the Labour Together Project; a call I wholeheartedly endorse. Having recently seen new documents, and new disclosures, I can tell you all that this story is going nowhere.

Condolences to all the Milibands. Marion’s life from child refugee onwards was part of my conversation with @DMiliband in January. Thinking again about her fortitude, and the long journey to finally finding out what happened to her father youtu.be/m5wcN8ZqEN8