No 10 Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney will not face further investigation from the election spending watchdog over Conservative accusations of a cover up over reporting donations.

The Electoral Commission said it had thoroughly reviewed the accusations but “found no evidence” of further potential offences. “We are therefore not reopening the investigation,” it said.

It came after fresh Conservative calls for a police investigation into McSweeney’s past role running Labour Together, a think-tank central to Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to the Labour leadership.

It is credited with seeing off the socialist wing of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn and installing Starmer as Labour leader and consequently prime minister. New Feature

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