Morgan McSweeney defence gets minister ridiculed

As we’ve covered extensively, Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson to be our ambassador to the US despite knowing that the man enjoyed a weird friendship with the dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Further revelations led to Mandelson being sacked; they also led to Starmer’s chief of staff and Mandelson protege Morgan McSweeney resigning in disgrace.

All of this is known and on the record.

And yet Labour politicians want you to believe that people who speculate on the finer details are ‘conspiracy theorists’:

Phillipson: the wider coverage around McSweeneys phone is drifting into conspiracy theory

Because the PMs chief of staff ringing the police like any ordinary person, not identifying himself, giving false details, no apparent govt security protocols, thats all perfectly normal! pic.twitter.com/hXlOcoSaUQ

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 29, 2026

We’re sorry, but if you didn’t want conspiracy theories, maybe you shouldn’t have appointed the guy who was best pals with Jeffrey Epstein — the man at the centre of the 21st century’s most far-reaching conspiracy.

Morgan McSweeney — Conspiracy

We’ve covered the latest intricacies of the scandal here, but the TLDR is:

Morgan McSweeney’s phone was conveniently ‘stolen’ after Mandelson got sacked.
McSweeney gave incorrect details to the police and failed to tell them he was a key member of government.
An investigation was launched following the revelation that Mandelson was leaking UK government information to Epstein.
We learned that many of the potential messages between Mandelson and McSweeney were missing or not being investigated.

In the clip above, host Trevor Phillips said to Bridget Phillipson:

Let me ask you about the story of the week. Why is Morgan McSweeney the only person in the modern world who doesn’t have his messages automatically backed up to the cloud so that we can recover them and see what traffic there was between him and our former ambassador to the United States?

Smirking as ever, Phillipson responded:

I think your question’s a bit of a reach in terms of that.

When asked why, she said:

It’s hyperbole and you know it.

Oh, sorry — she’s right — some people don’t backup their messages. That’s the real issue here — somewhat exaggerated language.

After confirming that Phillipson’s messages were backed up in line with government guidelines, Phillips asked:

Why aren’t Morgan McSweeney’s?

Phillipson answered:

What happened here, which we all know, is that Morgan McSweeney was mugged

Oh yeah, we’re all 100% confident that the famously dishonest McSweeney was truthful about this ‘theft’ which happened at the maximum moment of benefit to himself.

She continued, noting that McSweeney:

reported that to the police, followed all of the processes that were asked of him.

“That were asked of him” — ignoring the fact that the police didn’t ask him to do more because they weren’t told he was the prime minister’s chief of staff.

Getting to the truly offensive part, Phillipson said:

And I do think some of this wider coverage is drifting into… conspiracy theory territory here.

Oh, is that right?

Do you think that’s because the official narrative is so full of holes that people need to use their imagination to make it make sense?

Phillipson got a similarly harsh response from Lewis Goodall on LBC:

‘He’s not some geezer down the pub – he’s the Prime Minister’s chief of staff!’
@Lewis_Goodall responds to Bridget Phillipson's suggestion that coverage of Morgan McSweeney’s phone is ‘getting ridiculous’. pic.twitter.com/nkmluPxk7a

— LBC (@LBC) March 29, 2026

A big club

Interestingly, Phillips would later turn the conspiracy logic on Kemi Badenoch:

Absolutely wild scenes here as Peter Mandelson’s best friend insists there’s nothing weird about Peter Mandelson’s protege misplacing his phone at the height of a very serious scandal about Peter Mandelson passing information to a foreign agent. And he is *the host of the show*. https://t.co/4jx9MRhmsa

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) March 29, 2026

By ‘best friend’, what Flying Rodent means is that Mandelson was the best man at Phillips’ wedding.

This isn’t a conspiracy; this is what it looks like when your political and media establishment are so firmly entwined that you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.

Featured image via Sky