Starmer handler McSweeney to be dragged from shadows by Foreign Affairs Committee

Keir Starmer’s disgraced long-time handler Morgan McSweeney has been called to give evidence to the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. The call comes after former top Foreign Office civil servants told the committee that McSweeney had told them to ignore vetting and “just fucking approve” Keir Starmer’s appointment of disgraced paedophile’s pal — and McSweeney’s mentor — Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the UK.

McSweeney was previously always considered a shadow figure, who had little personal online presence or public profile. His father was a known used-car scammer who forfeited £25,000 in bail after fleeing to Malaga to avoid arrest and had a criminal conviction for assault. But McSweeney Jr was a cypher, a classical ‘power behind the throne’ who evidently wanted to wield power without being scrutinised by the public gaze.

Morgan McSweeney — the beginning of the end

The surface of that protective shell began to crack when the spying and sabotage activities of McSweeney’s outfit Labour Together were exposed by Paul Holden’s landmark book The Fraud. It spiderwebbed fatally when McSweeney’s mentor Mandelson was forced to resign in disgrace after further revelations of Mandelson’s ardour for serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein. And not just ardour — Mandelson gave Epstein sensitive and highly lucrative insider trading information.

And now McSweeney’s cover looks set to collapse altogether. If he is made to give sworn evidence, as the committee has the power to do, any lies he tells will be perjury, as well as contempt of Parliament, all on camera. It’s not routine for select committees to do so, but they can and do.

And in this case, they must. Starmer’s cabal has woven tissue after tissue of lies. To bring down Corbyn, to fool Labour members into voting for him as party leader, to fool voters in the general election and then seemingly daily since. That includes the latest, feeble attempts to blame underlings and civil servants for Starmer knowingly appointing a known security risk and friend of child-rapists to a key diplomatic position.

There can be little doubt that Starmer and McSweeney’s other remaining allies will be applying pressure behind the scenes on committee members to give McSweeney the softest of kid-glove treatments when he comes before the committee. They must be kicked out without ceremony — and any MP who doesn’t go for the jugular will be disgraced.

Time for the shadow man to be dragged into the disinfectant of sunlight. Whether he will burst into flames is a coin toss.

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