Labour MP Ian Byrne has been busy promoting his book. Podcast appearances, columns, the full blot…
“Why Populists Are Winning” attacks right-wing funding networks. But it is strangely silent on Byrne’s own donor about whom he would rather not talk. His donor benefactor? Sir Trevor Chinn…
Chinn donated £265,000 to Labour Together, the think tank under fire for hiring private investigators to smear journalists looking into its activities. He has also donated to Ruth Smeeth whilst she was a board member of Hope Not Hate, the Labour-linked organisation accused of spreading misinformation and pushing smear campaigns, and Lisa Nandy who has ministerial responsibility for the media industry and Ofcom internet police. Does Byrne not have a view on activist donors when they prop up leftist causes?
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”