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Pat McFadden dismisses Tory claims that Morgan McSweeney misled elections watchdog – UK politics live

Cabinet minister says Electoral Commission have looked into claims against ‘talented’ chief of staffGood morning. Pat McFadden has been on media round duties this morning. He is now work and pensions secreratary, and his interviews (conducted from Selhurst Park) were ostensibly about an announcement about premier league football clubs getting involved in a £25m expansion of the youth hubs programme.In his old job, as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, McFadden was in effect the “minister for the Today programme”, the No 10 figure sent out to hose down the media in the face of assorted scandals and problems and there was quite a bit of that going on this morning. He was asked about Donald Trump’s latest outburst. And he was asked about the Conservative allegations that Morgan McSweeney, the PM’s chief of staff, mislead the elections watchdog over donations to a Labour thinktank when the party was in opposition.Yes, I do. I worked with him very closely on the election campaign. He’s a person of enormous talent.The Electoral Commission made a statement on this last night, and they said that they’d looked into all these things some years ago and they really didn’t have anything to add to it.Look, I’m not surprised that the Conservatives are trying to, attack someone who was very effective, who was an integral part of Labour’s general election campaign last year in delivering the Labour victory. And they don’t happen very often; they don’t fall from the sky. They require talented people to work on them. He did that, and he did it in a very effective way.Look, I think the Electoral Commission have looked into that. They’ve said there is nothing to add here. They are the people actually charged with policing the rules around declarations to nations and all the rest of that. And they looked into this as far back, I think, as 2021. Continue reading...

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