A formal complaint has been made against Sir Keir Starmer by the Conservative Party, alleging that he breached parliamentary rules regarding political donations during his 2020 leadership campaign.
The complaint, submitted on 24 September 2025, focuses on the role of his current chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, and claims that McSweeney’s thinktank, Labour Together, made undeclared donations to Starmer’s campaign.
The Conservatives argue this constitutes a cover-up, as the support was not declared in the official Commons register, violating the requirement to register support worth more than £1,500.
A leaked document from 2021, published by the Conservatives on Tuesday, shows that while Morgan McSweeney was running Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign in 2020, he marked more than £700,000 of donations as an “admin error” and so didn’t disclose them in the official Commons register...<<<Read More>>>....