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🚨Morgan McSweeney is gone, for now.

But an MP who served on Labour’s frontbench has passed me details of an unknown and unelected group who “rule with a rod of iron” and are fighting to retain control of the party.

These are the names of McSweeney’s “inner circle”: 🧵

The first link in McSweeney’s inner circle is Matt Doyle.

In December, Starmer was criticised for offering Doyle a peerage even though he had previously campaigned for Sean Morton, a Scottish Labour councillor convicted of child sex offences.

No. 10 defended the decision.

Sean Morton, the Labour councillor for Fochabers and Lhanbryde, was charged in 2016. Then, he was convicted in 2018 of a string of crimes that included possession of indecent pictures of ten year-old girls.

In 2017, he stood for re-election as councillor. Doyle supported him.

According to the former Labour frontbencher who contacted me, “The inner circle were tight. WhatsApp tight. They talked openly of taking over the Labour Party literally. And to get rid of every existing MP eventually.

Morgan seemed to run everything.”

The second link in McSweeney’s inner circle is Matthew Faulding.

Faulding worked under McSweeney’s close supervision as Labour’s Director of Candidates, ensuring that only Mandelson-Starmer loyalists could be selected as candidates.

Faulding has previously been known to stalk the offices of Labour politicians, “striking the fear of death into MPs”, according to a party staffer.

But Starmer’s grip on the reins of power is slipping.

And now, even McSweeney can’t save him.

The third link in McSweeney’s inner circle is Matt Pound.

Pound was instrumental in Labour Party rule changes that smoothed Starmer’s rise to power. He was previously head of “Labour First”, working to ensure the success of McSweeney-favoured candidates in “internal elections”.

Pound is photographed here alongside Marlon Solomon and Luke Akehurst.

In 2019-20, Solomon was given £11,877 by the Pears Family Charitable Foundation to put on an Edinburgh Fringe show that would “put a comic spin on antisemitism”.

In 2008, the Pears Foundation established the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership, “a major initiative launched by the Prime Ministers of both countries”.

In 2010, they helped establish the UK-Israel Life Sciences Council. David Chinn attended the launch.

David Chinn is the eldest son of life-long Israel lobbyist Trevor.

Trevor Chinn was a co-director and major funder of Morgan McSweeney’s Labour Together Limited. When McSweeney was found to have concealed over £730,000 in donations to LT, he said it was “to protect Trevor”.

My source served on the Labour frontbench for five years. He told me that Megan McCann was McSweeney’s “fixer”:

“McCann was the senior due diligence officer who did everyone in. Morgan has put her as a Special Adviser in the Whips’ office with his relatives to spy on people.”

The “relatives” he refers to include Imogen Walker, McSweeney’s wife.

Walker received £10,000 from Labour Together + £15,000 from lobbyist Gary Lubner.

Along with Labour MP Gregor Poynton, she was one of two friends of Epstein-informant Peter Mandelson promoted last September.

According to my source, McCann was used to carry out McSweeney’s dirty work and maintain control over Labour politicians:

“She told me at a famous curry house meeting that when she’d finished doing in candidates, or getting them through, she built a dirty dossier on every MP.”

McCann is now a Special Adviser to Labour MP Jonathan Reynolds.

As stated by former Labour MP Tom Pendry, Reynolds was directly selected as a candidate by…

Peter Mandelson, long-time associate of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and mentor to McSweeney.

Before working for Reynolds, McSweeney’s “fixer” Megan McCann was on the staff of Labour MP Oliver Ryan.

Another McSweeney-Mandelson “pick”, Ryan received £10,000 from Labour Together.

McSweeney concealed over £730,000 in donations to Labour Together.

The ex-Labour frontbencher claims that McCann carried out McSweeney's instructions without question: “Some MPs complained about personal information finding its way into the press.

McSweeney’s plan was to run the Whips Office from Labour HQ. Only a lunatic would attempt this.”

The McSweeney-Starmer takeover of the Labour Party needed cash, and Waheed Alli was on hand to provide.

Alli was Starmer’s biggest personal donor, gifting over £30k for the Prime Minister’s clothing and glasses.

Now, his name appears in the Epstein Files.

Alli’s name appears on a list of guests due to attend an Epstein-hosted dinner February 2010 and another dinner in August of the same year.

In another leaked e-mail from 2012, Epstein tells a friend that Peter Mandelson and Waheed Alli are staying at “Shelter Island”.

Over the weekend, McSweeney was defended by Adam Langleben, current head of Labour Party think tank “Progress” + former National Secretary of the Jewish Labour Movement.

Langleben has previously supported Ivor Caplin, the ex-Labour MP caught by “paedophile hunters” last year.

Langleban described former Labour MP Greville Janner as his “inspiration”. In 2021, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said police deliberately “shut down” investigations into Janner.

In 1997, just weeks after his election, Tony Blair gave Janner a peerage.

Langleban is photographed here with Jack Lubner, Ella Rose, and Liron Velleman.

Jack’s father, Gary Lubner, has given Labour over £6 million since Starmer took over. His son, a former intern for Labour peer and lobbyist Ruth Smeeth, was elected head of Young Labour last April.

In “The Lobby” documentary, Ella Rose, a director of the Jewish Labour Movement who previously worked at the Israeli embassy, was caught boasting about participating in IDF-developed Krav Maga training.

Rose served as a Labour councillor in Barnet alongside Liron Velleman.

Last month, former Labour councillor Velleman plead guilty to a series of sexual offences against a 13-year-old girl.

Velleman sent naked pictures of himself to the girl and asked whether she “was a virgin” and “at home alone”.

Today, Keir Starmer told his fast-diminishing staff at No. 10 that he is “not resigning”.

But the removal of Starmer, once a matter of months, has now become a matter of days.

This time, even Morgan McSweeney can’t save him.

Morgan McSweeney’s Labour Together set private investigators on journalists researching his corruption, but we managed to bring him down.

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