McSweeney claims Mandelson disapproved of ‘Labour Together’, yet he helped set it up

Disgraced right-wing Labour saboteur Morgan McSweeney testified to MPs of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FAC) today. Presumably by design, it was mostly like watching paint dry. McSweeney justified himself and MPs failed to really press Keir Starmer’s ‘shadow man’. An opportunity squandered.

But an apparently emboldened McSweeney went a bit too far.

McSweeney: nothing to see with Mandelson and Labour Together

To distance himself and his sabotage and spying outfit from the scandal-riddled Blairite peer and child-rapist fan, he claimed that Peter Mandelson had not liked McSweeney’s Labour Together “at all”. Mandelson was “not a fan” of McSweeney’s project to destroy the left of the party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. That would be the same Mandelson who said he worked every day to undermine Corbyn.

Right.

But according to the unchallenged parliamentary record, as well as Mandelson’s own history, Mandelson was very much for Labour Together – and even helped McSweeney set it up:

Peter Mandelson had advised Morgan McSweeney on the establishment of that organisation, which had been responsible for breaking electoral law so that it could hide the sources of its funds from the public and from the Labour party. Labour Together then sought to intimidate and smear journalists who revealed that wrongdoing

This eagerness to distance himself and Labour Together from Mandelson isn’t new. The Canary covered it as a broad phenomenon a month ago, in March 2026. And as that coverage identified, Mandelson not only attended Labour Together events, but spoke at them. Yet Labour Together has been deleting the evidence:

Isn’t this strange… Labour Together deleted this post from X showing an LT event at 2023 Labour conference, addressed by Peter Mandelson, @jreynoldsMP and hosted by Josh Simons. This screengrab was taken two weeks ago, so only deleted since then. Would be a shame if it was… pic.twitter.com/PsgwzVF9eH

— The Fraud (@StarmertheFraud) March 25, 2026

Whyever would McSweeney and his sabotage crew caught spying on journalists and spreading totally false antisemitism smears want to distance itself from the Labour-right saboteur who couldn’t stop himself gushing about Jeffrey Epstein even after that monstrous Israeli spy was convicted for the first time of raping a child? What a conundrum – and what a pity (yet not at all surprising) that none of the MPs on the FAC thought to ask.

Featured image via the Canary