In response to the amusing if bewildering accusation I’m a Labour stooge, please do pass this on to the following comrades: — Keir Starmer and Waheed Alli, whose gifts of suits and spectacles to the PM was a story I broke — Jeremy Corbyn, who furiously denounced a book I cowrote as “tittle tattle” — Matthew Doyle, whose association with a convicted paedophile I exposed — Tulip Siddiq, whose housing deals I examined and formed part of the inquiry leading to her resignation — Keir Starmer (again), who said the thesis of a second book I wrote was “bollocks” — Morgan McSweeney, whose group’s £750,000 of unlawfully undeclared donations I exposed — Labour Together, which paid a US lobbying firm tens of thousands to investigate my work — Ann Limb, who had her Labour peerage deferred after I revealed she made up part of her CV — Joe Docherty, who was suspended as a Labour peer after I revealed his workplace sexting — Angela Rayner, whose trip to New York alongside her boyfriend I revealed was funded by Waheed Alli I recall many Reform figures vigorously agreeing about the public interest in those stories. Some have even referred to them in order to highlight the wrongdoing of the left since yesterday. But also, it isn’t “my” story, it’s the Sunday Times investigation team, Insight’s story. It could not, would not have happened, without the whole paper, especially @ManuMidolo @venetiamenzies @GeorgeGreenwood whose revelations were indispensable and who have not to my knowledge (yet) been accused of being Labour activists. Moreover the Sunday Times isn’t a Labour paper, or paper which exists to serve anyone or any party other than its readers and, to the best of our abilities, the public interest.

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