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Apparently, and most conveniently, Morgan McSweeney's mobile phone with texts to Peter Mandelson was stolen. According to officials, these messages may now be lost forever, meaning there will be gaps in the Mandelson files released by Downing Street. The claim that the phone was nicked and reported to police last year is one thing... But text messages don’t just vanish into the ether. They were not only on McSweeney’s phone. They would also have been on Mandelson’s phone, servers, backups, WhatsApp servers, email archives, telecom records, and government systems. In the modern world, messages don’t disappear. They leave footprints everywhere. Phones get stolen. Cloud backups don’t. Telecom records don’t. Server logs don’t. Recipients’ phones don’t. So when we are told the messages are gone forever, what we are really being asked to believe is not that a phone was stolen. We are being asked to believe that every copy of those messages, everywhere, somehow vanished at the same time. That would be quite a coincidence. In politics, when the evidence disappears, it rarely disappears by accident.

Well that’s something I didn’t know. When ‘gifts’ from wealthy ‘influencers’ to MPs are **personal** they don’t need to be declared to the House of Commons authorities & are *hidden* from public scrutiny. Like the “gifts” to Rayner reported by @Gabriel_Pogrund below. You wonder whether Labour’s freebies scandal was just the tip of a hidden iceberg 🤔 @mjdaly57

The brass neck of this from @UKGovScotland Here are the facts. 1. It’s great news 2. £20m from Ryanair 3. £15m from the Scottish government 4. £5m from the UK government. And it’s acknowledged that Kate Forbes was instrumental in making this happen. Well done @Ryanair.

Steve Bannon was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to use crypto to launder money into politics to the tune of $100m. He also claimed to be advisor to Farage and to work on killing crypto regulation. Screenshots below from the famous files...

Maybe Britain wouldn't be broken if Reform Ltd paid their taxes This would have paid for 18 NHS nurses thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

A new investigation claims GB News is failing to meet Ofcom standards – but nothing is being done. GB News says it's fair and impartial, but journalist @arusbridger says only someone paid to work for the channel could claim that with 'a straight face' thenewsagents.co.uk/article/it-can…

Worth remembering where Nathan Gill, Farage’s close aide and Welsh Reform leader, was heading when arrested for bribery by Putin’s pal Medvedchuk — to a crypto and politics event in Moscow sponsored by the Kremlin ➡️ bylinetimes.com/2025/10/17/wha…

So Labour Together founder Morgan McSweeney’s phone - with all his legendary contacts and messages etc in it - was ‘stolen’? Its WhatsApp messages have gone to that ‘happy place’ in the sky where his close friend Peter Mandelson’s emails vanished to. This is how vetting works now

Guardian's Scotland Editor platforms Holyrood's third party as the main and only opposition to Reform UK when polls make it clear the SNP is that talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/21/gua…

“What is your vision for Britain?” Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, says Labour has failed to back workers – and will be “decimated” in the May elections. If Keir Starmer won’t back the working class or introduce a wealth tax, Graham asks what it is that Labour stands for.

Total chaos.

This is so nuts. The bulk of the funding comes from Ryanair with £15m from Scotgov & £5m from UK gov. In those circs you say you are helping to support jobs, you don't try & claim all the credit!

Shocked that @BBCNews are running a story about Andrew and Fergie refusing to give testimony in the USA on Epstein, but won't mention @pritipatel blocked a request from the FBI for them to be questioned. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

This shameless lying bastard has a lot to answer for. The false claim that Britain is a 'high tax, high welfare' country is a myth pushed by free-market extremists. Matthew Elliott, now Baron Elliott of Mickle Fell, is one of the UK's most prominent right-wing political strategists and lobbyists. His cynical manipulative ideological extremism has caused untold harm to Britain and to ordinary British people. He founded #TuftonStreet's TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) in 2004, Big Brother Watch in 2009, and Business for Britain, which evolved into the Vote Leave campaign. He served as chief executive of Vote Leave during the 2016 EU referendum and previously directed the successful NOtoAV campaign in 2011. In 2024, he was elevated to the House of Lords on insane conspiracy theorist Liz Truss's resignation honours list, and he now leads the Jobs Foundation while remaining active in Conservative circles and the upper chamber. Elliott is a key figure in importing American-style astroturf lobbying and dark-money techniques into British politics. His organisations, particularly those clustered around #55TuftonStreet, have operated with limited transparency on funding sources, allowing wealthy donors, including corporate and libertarian interests, to exert outsized influence on policy without proper scrutiny. The TPA has consistently declined to disclose most of its donors, fuelling accusations that it functions as a front for ideologically aligned backers rather than a genuine grassroots voice. The infamous £350 million a week for the #NHS claim on the Vote Leave battle bus has been widely condemned as misleading, given the complexities of the UK's EU budget contributions and rebate. In 2018, the Electoral Commission ruled that Vote Leave breached spending limits through improper coordination with the separate BeLeave group, resulting in a £61,000 fine and a police referral. Although Elliott has denied personal wrongdoing and courts later questioned aspects of the Commission's interpretation, the episode is often cited as evidence that the official Leave side stretched or violated electoral rules to secure victory. Earlier charity-related issues have also drawn scrutiny. Elliott established the Political and Economic Research Trust in 2006 as an educational charity, but investigations by the Charity Commission in 2011 and 2015 highlighted inadequate controls over grants to non-charitable political entities, including Business for Britain. One £50,000 grant for an anti-EU report was ordered to be repaid. When his peerage nomination was announced, opponents, including Liberal Democrat figures, urged the House of Lords Appointments Commission to block it on propriety grounds linked to these funding arrangements, though he was ultimately cleared and took his seat. Elliott is strongly linked to climate-sceptic networks and fossil-fuel interests, with his work framing EU environmental regulations as overreach. His early involvement in the Conservative Friends of Russia group, including a Moscow trip, has been raised in discussions of pre-Brexit Tory-Russia ties, though he distanced himself from further participation. Links to US libertarian figures, such as those in the Koch network and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, which inspired his UK efforts, reinforce perceptions of him as an importer of aggressive, low-tax, deregulatory campaigning. Elliott is a highly effective operator who has prioritised ideological wins and personal advancement over transparency, factual rigour, and democratic standards. His successes in referendums and sustained influence on Conservative thinking, especially during the Truss era, come at the cost of diminished public trust through opaque networks, rule-bending, and misleading messaging. The recurring themes of financial opacity, electoral controversies, misleading misinformation using decontextualised cherry-picked often incomplete data, and ideological networking dominate his career.

Everywhere you look there are financial questions connected to Farage

@kateferguson4 McSweeneys phone as gone AWOL with all his Mandelson messages. Quelle surprise!! And where is Mandeldon’s phone which must also have the same messages recorded? The elite class think we British are all fools if they believe we are so gullible as to swallow the rubbish they feed

Dear BBC/Sky News For some strange reason there are no headlines regarding the Priti Patel story that she BLOCKED the FBI from quizzing the then Prince Andrew over Epstein. If you do not report the news as is,what exactly are you here for? #BBCLauraK #BBCBreakfast #TrevorPhillips

Wow. The figure credited with securing this deal is Scotland’s DFM, Kate Forbes. Ryanair contributed £20m. Scottish Government £15m. UKG £5m. Yet here they are shamelessly trying to take credit for it. Disgraceful.

Nobody gets away with electoral fraud like Cummings and you. If a judge says @michaelgove is completely corrupt and broke electoral law with Vote Leave- then helped his donor - David Meller with a £164m VIP PPE contract - the judge is telling the truth.

We absolutely love seeing the JPEG compression artifacts on this graphic we made last April. It’s proof that it’s been posted, downloaded, passed around WhatsApp groups for nearly a year – and it’s proof that word is getting around about Wes Streeting 👀