A Welsh co-conspirator has been in touch following Guido’s series on the upcoming class-action wave set to sweep into British businesses under Labour. Welsh Labour First Minister, Vaughan Gething, and Jo Stevens, the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, both spent significant portions of their working career at the same claimant law firm: Thompsons Solicitors. You can guarantee if the two most senior Tory politicians had worked in the same class action firm, The Guardian would be filing a story about a web of intrigue by now…

Thompsons, a self-described “campaigning” law firm – who never act on behalf of employers or insurers – have donated more than £200,000 to Labour and its candidates since 2001. They also claim to have “invented the class action” lawsuit, pioneering it as a form of “fast and aggressive legal action.” The firm also counts hard-left MPs Richard Burgon and Andy McDonald amongst its former employees, alongside Labour’s Deputy Campaign Co-ordinator and sister of the Shadow Chancellor, Ellie Reeves. Well connected…

Thompsons might be the latest class action firm connected to Labour, but they’re certainly not the first – as Guido has revealed with its reporting on Pogust Goodhead. With British business under threat in Starmer’s lawfare Britain, it’s no wonder lobbying firms are scrambling to hire as many Labour researchers as possible. More bad news for Tory SpAds…