McSweeney just revealed a new secret Starmer meeting

On Tuesday 28 April, Morgan McSweeney appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee. In doing so, he no doubt hoped to weasel out of the recent scrutiny he’s faced for his role in making Peter Mandelson the ambassador to the US. Instead, he exposed the existence of a secret meeting between himself and the PM:

McSweeney says there was a meeting in which Starmer decided to appoint Mandelson. But apparently there is no record of that meeting.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 28, 2026

Secrets upon secrets from McSweeney

Times political editor Steven Swinford reported the following:

Morgan McSweeney reveals that Sir Keir Starmer held a meeting in mid-December where a decision was made to appoint Lord Mandelson as US ambassador

To be clear, this was before Mandelson was vetted. This provides further evidence that Starmer and those around him were planning to appoint Mandelson regardless.

Swinford also said:

There is no record of this meeting. There is no minute of the discussions or the reasoning behind the appointment at the time. The Cabinet Office simply can’t find it. It does not appear to exist.

So a really significant meeting on the appointment of the US ambassador – one which has had huge ramifications for Starmer’s premiership – only appears to exist in the memory of those who were present.

This is probably obvious, but government officials aren’t supposed to be having secret meetings; everything is supposed to be recorded.

This isn’t the only secret meeting Starmer is facing questions over either. As we reported, Starmer also secretly met with Palantir (with Peter Mandelson in tow no less). Starmer’s defence for this was that the meeting was not in fact a ‘meeting’; something he claimed despite personally referring to it as a “meeting” on at least one other occassion.

The amount that Starmer's team thinks they can get away with on technicalities is obscene, but this one really takes the piss. What the fuck do you mean it wasn't a meeting. Was it a Subbuteo tournament? https://t.co/QiA1Rgnasb

— Willibee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@Willibee64) April 25, 2026

Weasel words

McSweeney contradicted himself at points in the hearing. As Swinford reported:

Morgan McSweeney says that he was concerned that Lord Mandelson was not telling the ‘full truth’ in response to questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein

But the appointment went ahead anyway.

This would have been a staggering revelation. The assumption up until now has been that McSweeney was the key driver behind the decision to make Mandelson the ambassador. If he’d been a Mandelson-doubter, that would have made Keir Starmer look even worse than he already does.

In his own words, McSweeney said:

It was the prime minister’s decision

I certainly think it would have been much, much better if I’d asked PET to ask those follow-up questions. I guess my thinking at the time was I’d put follow up questions to him in writing, and that if a senior member of staff did that, that he would feel more obligated to give the truth and the full truth.

I didn’t feel that I got that back from him, but it wasn’t my decision. It was the prime minister’s decision, and he saw the DV as part of that decision.

As Swinford later noted, however:

McSweeney is now going back on this. He says: ‘When he wrote back to me I assumed, wrongly, that he was telling the truth’

Earlier he said he didn’t feel he got the ‘full truth’ back from him

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) April 28, 2026

Given this, you can see why McSweeney has avoided speaking in public before now.

The guy clearly has no ability to keep track of his own lies.

Epic

Paul Holden – author of The Fraud – noted that McSweeney and Labour Together worked together on an “epic campaign to destroy the left”:

Fitting the Committee ends with a poorly posed question about Labour Together, which McSweeney can then claim was a kumbaya effort to stop the Party imploding.

Sorry, pal, your besties like @SteveReedMP already spilled the beans & bragged about LT's epic campaign to destroy the… pic.twitter.com/ePucUdWRGn

— The Fraud (@StarmertheFraud) April 28, 2026

McSweeney was actually very successful in his mission to destroy the left…

…kind of.

He and Starmer managed to banish left-wingers from the Labour Party, but those people didn’t cease to exist. If you’re wondering what they’re doing now, the answer is ‘voting Green’.

This is how that’s predicted to shape up in the fast-approaching local elections:

‼️Projected net changes for local elections:

➡️ Ref +1,437
🟢 Grn +926
🟠 Lib +327
🔵 Con -627
🔴 Lab -1,738

Median estimate via @Moreincommon_, April '26 pic.twitter.com/OFxPMxmoUV

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 21, 2026

This is Morgan McSweeney’s legacy.

He can pretend to be a moderate sensiblist in committee hearings all he likes, but this man’s rampant incompetence jump-started the terminal decline of one of the world’s longest-running labour parties.

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