Tories refer Starmer to standards commissioner over allegations about historic campaign donations
In 2020, Tories filed an official complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner on the allegations of irregular donations to Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign.
Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake claimed that Sir Keir claimed that he has created new evidence about the role of the Chief of General Staff Morgan Mcsweeney in the leadership campaign.
He claimed that Mr. Mcsweeney made donations that were not reported to the Starmer campaign together at the time.
However, labor sources strongly rejected the allegations, saying that Mr. Mcsweeney was not together at the time, but by the leadership campaign only by the leadership campaign.
It is part of a pressure on attacking Mr. Mcsweeney, which is seen by the conservative party as the most powerful ally of the Prime Minister and the most influential figure of the government.
In a threat of social media platform X, Mr. Hollinrake said: “The Labor Party says that there was nothing to be seen here and there was no participation. But in 2023, Morgan Mcsweeney was confirmed that he joined the workmanship together to become the campaign director for Starmer. ”
He continued: “Morgan McSweeney has confirmed that LinkedIn, then Starmer’s campaign director. However, Labour Together’s companies confirmed that McSweeney served as the director of the organization during this period – only in April.”
In addition, Labour Together’s own website, which is currently deleted on his website, “boast of close participation in Starmer’s campaign”, “Labour Together in 2020, Keir Starmer’ın helped to supervise the party membership behind.
In addition, Labour claimed that thousands of people have spent the long time to defeat the left -wing candidate for the Starmer campaign.
Mr. Hollinrake claimed that this was a “covering up and added:“ The rules of political donations of the Commons are crystal that the same donations or support should be declared to the deputies from the associations of the members of the members.
He claimed that “the people were lying ve and announced that he had filed an official complaint to the Standards Commissioner.
However, the worker issued a rejection of the allegations.
“Morgan’s salary was paid by Keir’s leadership campaign during the campaign, not together. Neither Keir nor Leadership Campaign did not accept money or the same donations together during the leadership elections.”
