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Andy Burnham has hired a former director of leftist campaigning outfit Hope Not Hate as his new head of political strategy in No10, according to Sam Coates. Buckle up…
Matthew McGregor was Director of Campaigns & Communications for Hope Not Hate from January 2018 to October 2021, after which he was appointed CEO of activist organisation 38 Degrees. He remained a listed Director for Hope Not Hate until 29 April 2022. Team Burnham is trying to ignore this and stress McGregor’s experience in the Obama campaign, which is far more limited…
The line briefed out to hacks for copy-and-pasting was: “He is currently CEO of 38 Degrees and has worked on elections in the U.K. and overseas, including Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.” He had a stint of one year and three months as Digital Rapid Response director for the Obama campaign in 2011/12…
Burnham has also hired Jacinda Ardern’s old campaign director Hayden Munro as political director. Leading some Labour sources to worry about how well-connected these senior hires are to the party family…
Hope Not Hate is currently the subject of a complaint to the Electoral Commission from Nigel Farage over its charitable arm’s leafleting activities during the Makerfield by-election. Reform say that amounted to a pro-Burnham campaign dressed up as anti-extremism work. HNH is closely intertwined with Labour – it’s a revolving door…
Yesterday along with the replacements for Digital ID minister Josh Simons and health minister Ashley Dalton, Baroness Ruth Anderson was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office, while remaining a Lords whip.
Anderson – then Smeeth – described herself on her old candidates website:
“I am a former trade union officer and activist, a lifelong Labour Party campaigner (I started leafleting for the party when I was eight!) and I’m currently the Deputy Director of HOPE not hate, the anti-extremism and anti-racism campaign.”
When Labour went into government Hope Not Hate’s links inside were substantial. Anna Turley was both a director and a member of its board of trustees. Sarah Owen, Gurinder Singh Josan and Antonia Bance were all involved with Hope Not Hate…
Hope Not Hate has contributed to internal Labour efforts against Reform and is peddling questionable research today which says “most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave.” Now the Cabinet Office gets a taste of the action…
Guido has chronicled the deep Labour links of political campaign group Hope Not Hate, the influence of which is now felt at the highest ranks of the government. Its boss has a new book out…
Nick Lowles, chief executive, is on tour promoting his new tome about “how to defeat the far right.” The book goes big on attacking the “dehumanising language” of racial insults and stereotypes. Who could disagree?
Hope Not Hate is conducting on-ground tactical instruction for budding Labour activists to take on Reform. Unfortunately for Starmer’s communications strategists the leftist campaign takes a dim view of his decision to brand Reform “racist” for the first time…
“We really need to be thinking more carefully about what we’re saying beyond ‘Reform is a racist party’ because that message isn’t cutting through to the majority of voters. We might feel satisfied with ourselves but we’re unlikely to achieve very much if we’re thinking about actually changing constituency results.”
To that end the Labour-linked group has produced its own new segmented analysis of Reform voters based on data it has collected from 45,000 people. Remember – this research is presented at private senior Labour HQ meetings…
Hope Not Hate’s segmentation of Reform voters is as follows:
Hope Not Hate says the last group is crucial to target as they are furthest from Reform’s so-far declared policy agenda. The operation warned activists that momentum for Reform in the large-scale 2026 local, Senedd, and Holyrood elections would give it a clear route to Number 10. You bet…
Tory MP Jack Rankin has written to the CEO of the Charity Commission demanding it investigates Hope Not Hate for possible breaches of its charitable status. Bad news for the Labour-linked group…
Rankin writes:
“Hope Not Hate Limited is purely political operation with a reported history of fabricating security threats, spreading disinformation and pushing smear campaigns…it seems incompatible with the charitable requirement to further public benefit in a balanced, non-partisan manner.”
Guido has long been chronicling some of the group’s more eyebrow-raising messages…
Read the letter in full below:
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Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”