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@JohnHealey_MP How about your party who running the country hold yourselves to account for once and have a go at honesty and transparency and behaving like a democratic government before you make demands on others

Six days ago, I wrote to Nigel Farage with five questions about his secret £5m donation. Since then, he’s had nothing to say. The public deserve answers.

@SecGenNATO You mean ukraines piggy bank are meeting up to see how much more money they can spend on a non nato state while their own countries are financially ruined

At our meeting today, Foreign Ministers will discuss #NATO's top priorities as we get ready for the #NATOsummit in Ankara in a few weeks Increasing defence investment and turning cash into capabilities Ramping up defence industrial production - with cooperation across the Alliance And continuing our unwavering support for Ukraine #ForMin

@AndyBurnhamGM Those weasley words are not those of a man suitable to lead a country

Today we think of everyone affected by the attack in Manchester on the night of the 22nd May 2017, and particularly the families who lost loved-ones, knowing that every single day of the nine years since has been hard for them. We are still at their side and always will be. 🐝

@Keir_Starmer They didn't lose their lives they were brutally murdered in a islamist terrorist attack. You'd be better staying quiet if your incapable of acknowledging what happened

Nine years on from the Manchester Arena terror attack, my thoughts are with those who lost their lives, the survivors, and their loved ones. Last year I was proud to deliver on my promise to Figen Murray to introduce Martyn’s Law, in memory of her son Martyn Hett. Martyn’s Law will help save lives by making sure venues and event spots have clear plans in place and are ready to act if the worst happens.

On 16/4/26 I shared a previous story about the Hull case written by the same journalist @JonAustinjourn1 way back in 2019. That these young women are STILL having to fight the system all these years later is truly horrific, but I think having people alongside them like @JonAustinjourn1 who don’t give up, who support them and are fighting their corner to ensure the story is kept alive is helping them. We @TMOFCharity have also been supporting these girls since 2021 and they are a total inspiration to still have the strength and courage to fight on, but this battle against the authorities has taken a huge toll on their lives. It was a pleasure to see them at our ball in Manchester two weeks ago standing up proudly despite the challenges. They were also part of the group of 2 dozen survivors we supported in a meeting we hosted with @annelongfield and her team in Manchester in February, and we are committed to helping them in any way we can to see justice delivered if that’s what they want. A case like this shows just how broken our system is. The shadow that hangs over their lives is a daily trauma, which has been hanging over their lives in all honesty for many more years than the horrific sexual abuse they suffered as children. Had they been protected as children as was their right, and the authorities acted then, their lives would have been so very different. It shouldn’t be this way. It shouldn’t take this long. Children, victims and survivors shouldn’t be treated like this. I have the greatest respect for these beautiful girls, their courage, their determination, their ‘staying power’, but the toll this constant fight has taken on their mental health and their lives should never be underestimated - and they are just a few of the many thousands of victims of all kinds of sexual violence that have to travel this path in search of justice and closure. Our system is broken. Full stop!

Robert Jenrick speaks about Henry Nowak’s scandalous death before Keir Starmer has even mentioned his name. If Henry was an ethnic minority or trans, Keir Starmer would have already met with his parents.

@PolitlcsGlobal Funny how our government have money for everything except the British people

🚨🇬🇧 NEW: The UK has announced it will provide up to £20 million to contain the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and support the communities impacted by the virus Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says “it is vital we act now to save lives”

@MichelleDewbs @MaggieOliverUK @JonAustinjourn1 @DianaJohnsonMP @KarlTurnerMP You know why @MichelleDewbs because the hull mp's and council would have to admit that they not only failed but like so many others have tried to cover up their failures

This is absolutely shocking 😔 Thank you @MaggieOliverUK and @JonAustinjourn1 for all that you do🙏🏻 Why aren’t the Hull MPs @DianaJohnsonMP @KarlTurnerMP & Emma Hardy helping these girls?

@kevinhollinrake What happened yesterday was the British people once again saw our establishment were more concerned about ukraine and how things affect them rather than the country and the people they are paid to serve

Even Labour’s own frontbench can’t defend this. Emily Thornberry says Ukrainians are “very let down” and asking why Britain is doing this. When even Labour can’t defend Labour, you know the decision to buy Russian oil is indefensible.

@JohnHealey_MP @RoyalAirForce @NATO So international airspace. We have a spy plane over the black sea why? And yet the only problem is Russia flying in international airspace.

The actions of Russian pilots towards an unarmed @RoyalAirForce aircraft are dangerous and unacceptable. I pay tribute to the outstanding bravery of the RAF crew, who completed their mission safely. This will not deter the UK’s commitment to defend our @NATO allies.

@andrewfeinstein As soon as he announced he was resigning i thought it was because he's knows that labour together and their actions are gonna be exposed

Now we know why Josh Simons resigned: he was lying about getting journalists investigated. If he was still an MP we could have demanded an investigation into him. So now we ask: What did Starmer know, and when? Dirty tricks, attempting to destroy the left, dodgy donations & lying - that’s the contribution of the Starmer project to British politics

Final upload of the evening, but many more to come. This is the 'case summary' and 'intelligence and investigations offer' submitted to @joshsimonsmp by APCO worldwide in November 2023. It plainly indicates that I am a journalist and will be investigated (bit catty on the 'relatively unknown' comment). Simons signed an appointment contract with APCO initiating a highly-invasive investigation two days later, which included looking into the sourcing and motivation of the Sunday Times article. Two months later, in January 2024, APCO produced a report that included fabricated, insulting and extraordinarly defamatory allegations against me, my family, my colleagues and associates: career-ending, life-destroying lies. It was this report that McSweeney and Ovenden were to be briefed on in January 2024, and which was submitted to the NCSC by Labour Together and Josh Simons that same month.

1st of a selection of documents to be uploaded tonight. Here @joshsimonsmp (Labour Together) emails Morgan McSweeney & Paul Ovenden, copying in Tom Harper (APCO) Worldwide. Harper led investigation into me, my family, colleagues & journalists including @Gabriel_Pogrund

2nd document to be published tonight. Here, Tom Harper of APCO advises @joshsimonsmp on how to make a 'crime complaint' to the NSCS (a part of GCHQ) about me, my colleagues and family. Harper coaches Simons on how to get their attention. Note the subject line. Everything Harper says here about what happened is untrue - there was no 'hack' of Labour Together data, and no attempt to 'interfere' with democracy. Instead, me and my fellow journalists were trying to protect democracy by warning people about the true nature of the McSweeney/Starmer project.

Joint Statement: Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein Regarding Labour Together, APCO and the Labour Party On Wednesday last week we received documents from Labour Together following Subject Access Requests that we submitted to Labour Together in February 2026. The documents provided by Labour Together are deeply disturbing. They show that Labour Together and APCO targeted us, our colleagues, our associates and Paul’s family with utterly false and highly defamatory allegations, and that this was done with the knowledge of the highest levels of the Labour Party. Indeed, we are now of the view that the operation to investigate us, our families and associates was effectively a joint operation run by the Labour Party, Labour Together and APCO. This highly invasive campaign was launched because of Paul’s factually accurate reporting. This reporting raised serious questions about whether Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney deliberately failed to report £730,000 in donations to the Electoral Commission in violation of the law. It is now plain that Sir Keir Starmer benefited from the work funded by these donations and that they facilitated his rise to power. We are calling for a full inquiry into Labour Together. We also call on Sir Keir Starmer to clarify his role in this scandal. Considering the documents that have been disclosed to date, we find it nearly inconceivable that Sir Keir Starmer did not know about this despicable project that included Labour Together reporting us to the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, based on utterly false and highly defamatory allegations. These highly defamatory allegations were then shared with at least one major newspaper outlet. The newly released documents reveal six important facts. First, they show that Morgan McSweeney and Paul Ovenden were aware of the APCO and Labour Together investigation into us from at least January 2024. McSweeney was the Labour Party’s head of campaigns and subsequently Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff in Number 10. Paul Ovenden was the Director of Labour Party communications and subsequently Head of Strategy in Number 10. The emails show Simons arranging a meeting between himself, Ovenden, McSweeney and Tom Harper, a senior APCO employee, to discuss the investigation into us. A third Labour employee was copied into the email, but, because of redactions, we do not know who this is. We ask the Labour Party to confirm who else was copied into this correspondence. The excellent @PeterKGeoghegan and Democracy for Sale have confirmed with a Labour Party source that the intended meeting did take place. Second, they show that APCO’s Tom Harper actively coached Josh Simons and Labour Together on how to submit a ‘crime complaint’ about us to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ. Harper provided text for Simons to submit to the NCSC. The decision to complain about us to the NCSC was made only days after Simons had emailed McSweeney, Ovenden and Harper about APCO’s upcoming report into us, asking for a meeting to discuss its contents. Third, Josh Simons has repeatedly claimed in public that he appointed APCO to investigate a ‘hack’ of Labour Together materials. But the new documents show that Labour Together and Simons did not conduct any meaningful cybersecurity review to establish whether materials had been hacked from Labour Together, or where else they may have been sourced from. Labour Together did, however, appoint a cybersecurity expert to review a potential hack in late 2025. This review, a summary of which has now been disclosed to us, shows that there was no ‘hack’ of Labour Together. This is obviously true, as we have repeatedly explained that the investigation into Labour Together was based on documents legally leaked from the Labour Party by whistleblowers concerned about misconduct by the Party’s most senior officials, open-source materials, and Freedom of Information requests. Fourth, they show that Josh Simons and Labour Together told the NCSC that they were reporting us because they were concerned that Paul’s reporting ‘may be a co-ordinated effort to discredit Labour Together in order to undermine Mr McSweeney and by extension, Mr. Starmer in the run-up to next year’s general election.’ It is our view that this joint Labour Together, Labour Party and APCO operation was launched because Paul’s factually accurate reporting would have shed light on the highly problematic and unlawful aspects of Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to power. Fifth, they show that APCO had sent a ‘case summary’ to Josh Simons of Labour Together on the 20th of November 2020, on the basis of which APCO were contracted by Labour Together two days later. The ‘case summary’, setting out a proposed scope of work, clearly identified us as journalists. From the very beginning, therefore, APCO and Labour Together knew that they were looking to investigate journalists – the very journalists who were reporting accurately on Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney and undeclared donations. Sixth, they show that Simons wrote to an unknown person at the Labour Party in November 2023 asking for ‘intel’ on us. This shows that Simons’ immediate response to announcement of Paul’s book was to seek the assistance of the Labour Party. At the time, we were both Labour Party members. The reply to Simons’ request has been redacted in our documents. We call on the Labour Party to release all documents to us relevant to this scandal, and to confirm whether Josh Simons, Labour Together or APCO were provided with any of our private, personal information.

Could this legendary gentleman please get in touch. A future Reform government would like to give him a peerage for this outstanding public service. He can do similar to all the crooks currently sitting in the House of Lords!

OH DEAR Rachel Reeves heckled by white van man as she visits a petrol station. “Get Starmer out! Get Labour out! You’re ruining the country! Are you going to arrest me for having an England flag? Get Farage in!” She lectures the guy about “manners”

@SkyNews We have rejected those that seek to divide us only the labour party has failed to notice its their policys of division we've rejected

'I left the government because we are in the fight of our lives against nationalism.' Former health secretary, Wes Streeting, addressed the Commons following his resignation. He adds that 'we must reject the politics that tries to divide us.' trib.al/EPZvYqh

@PippaCrerar @lukeharding1968 Our governments priority is to ensure we have enough fuel and energy supplies to keep the country running its not ukraines business to pass judgement or influence what will affect the British people and it's not our governments job to prioritise ukraine above us

NEW: Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office says it is seeking clarification from Downing Street on UK sanction decision @lukeharding1968 reports. Ukraine’s president hasn't yet commented on decision to issue new licence for imports of diesel and jet fuel made from sanctioned Russian oil. UK has also permitted maritime transport of Russian LNG. Zelenskyy has previously urged Western partners to maintain tough sanctions regime against Russian oil exports, pointing out that Moscow uses cash from hydrocarbon sales to fund its war against Ukraine. “There is currently very active communication between our diplomats and the Office [of the President] and the British side to clarify the details,” an aide said.

@PolitlcsGlobal More jolly outings hugs and telling each other how great and compassionate they are while women and girls continue to suffer

🚨🇬🇧 NEW: The UK has created a new international coalition to end violence against women and girls Member states will work together to prevent domestic abuse, sexual violence and online abuse Member states include: 🇬🇧 UK 🇪🇸 Spain 🇦🇺 Australia 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina