The man pulling Starmer’s strings has resigned in disgrace

Morgan McSweeney – the long-term enemy of the Canary – has resigned from government in disgrace. And to quote Canary head of content Maryam Jameela who just messaged me in Signal:

bye bye dickhead

The man behind The Fraud Morgan McSweeney – off

As journalist Paul Holden covered in The Fraud, the Labour Together schemer Morgan McSweeney was the man who spent the last decade manoeuvring to:

• Bring down Jeremy Corbyn.
• Position the Labour right as the leaders of the Labour Party.
• Return to government.

McSweeney managed all three, but he hit step 3 more quickly than anticipated. This is why Labour ended up in power with the political vacuum that is Keir Starmer. It’s also why they achieved a majority government with fuck all plan as to what to do next.

Regardless of the finer details, this Labour government is McSweeney’s vision brought to life. This means he’s lived to see how much the public despise his worldview, with voters leaving the party in droves:

Contrary to popular belief, Labour is not struggling in the polls because they're losing votes to Reform. Even if they recovered all the votes lost to Reform they'd still be on just 21%, down double digits since GE2024.

Instead, the bulk of votes lost have been to the LEFT.

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) January 26, 2026

As noted, Morgan McSweeney is a longtime enemy of the Canary. He is the man who said the Labour right need to:

Kill the Canary – before the Canary kills us

While we can’t say we dealt McSweeney the killer blow, we can say this: we’re the last bird standing, cunt.

Enjoy your public disgrace.

And speaking of disgrace, the reason this is all happening is because of McSweeney’s mentor – Peter Mandelson. As we’ve reported, Mandelson wasn’t just paling around with the convicted paedophile; he was also slipping him state secrets while in government.

McSweeney was instrumental in returning Mandelson to power, and it’s destroyed them.

Maybe they should have killed Mandelson before he killed their careers?

Starmer next?

There is a problem, of course, and it’s this.

Now that Morgan McSweeney has gone, it could be a while before Starmer steps down.

That isn’t because the PM has anything left to offer; it’s because now that McSweeney’s gone, there’s no one in Number 10 to tell Starmer what to do.

Featured image via Morgan McSweeney