The dark money behind Keir Starmer's rise | Peter Geoghegan interview

Ava sits down with investigative journalist and winner of Private Eye's Paul Foot award Peter Geoghegan to talk Labour Together, Josh Simons, and the APCO scandal. Geoghegan takes us inside the investigation that forced Simons, who gave up his Makerfield seat for Andy Burnham, to resign. At the centre of the conversation is Labour Together: the organisation that helped shape Keir Starmer’s leadership project. Geoghegan explains how the group functioned less like a traditional thinktank and more like a political campaign machine backed by significant undeclared funding. That money, he argues, was used to build the polling, messaging, and strategy that underpinned Starmer’s rise. Like PoliticsJOE? We need your support: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticsJOE