On 20 September, the Daily Mail reported that Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is “facing the threat of a police investigation”. There are claims that Morgan McSweeney supported Starmer’s political ambitions by hiding £700k+ in political donations to the Labour Together group. McSweeney is a close ally of Peter Mandelson, and is believed to have been instrumental in putting him in the ambassador role. These include high-level Labour staffers apparently seeking to undermine both the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and the party’s election campaign in 2017. The Canary can now reveal that Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, launched the organisation that now runs SFFN.