The Electoral Commission has today dismissed the Conservative Party’s request for a fresh investigation into Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney.

The complaint related to late-declared donations by Labour Together, of which Mr McSweeney is a former director.

FactCheck takes a look.

What is Labour Together?

Labour Together was set up as a thinktank. Mr McSweeney reportedly described its mission in an internal document as “mov[ing] the Labour party from the hard left”.

Mr McSweeney was a director of Labour Together from 2017 to 2020, overlapping with the time he spent heading Mr Starmer’s leadership campaign. Following the successful run, he left Labour Together in 2020 to become Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.

Did Labour Together have to declare its don

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