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https://t.co/zH1Xza3LDp Lord Mandelson was one of the key people involved in the whispering campaign against the Sunday Times and its journalists, according to the Telegraph. This was based on a false report by a public affairs firm - Apco - commissioned by Labour Together to investigate the newspaper and its reporters after it ran a story on Labour Together not declaring financial donations. Apco produced a 58-page report on the Sunday Times and its journalists in January 2024, devoting 10 pages to the background of Gabriel Pogrund, one of the article’s authors, highlighting his status as a Jew, falsely claiming he was a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and including false claims about his upbringing and his personal and professional life. The report falsely claimed the Sunday Times story could have come from a suspected Kremlin hack of the Electoral Commission, which had fined Labour Together more than £14,000 for failing to declare donations on time. Kevin Hollinrake, the Tory chairman, asked his Labour counterpart Anna Turley to explain whether she “considers it appropriate for Labour MPs to continue to receive cash from Labour Together”. He also called on her to “suspend all Labour Party engagement with Labour Together until all allegations have been independently investigated”. Ms Turley was also urged to investigate Mr Simons.