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Labour minister resigns over secret investigation into reporters
The Observer
|March 01, 2026
Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons has resigned after it emerged that he had ordered an investigation into journalists who had revealed undeclared funding by his former think-tank Labour Together.
Simons, who had falsely linked reporters to a “pro-Kremlin” network in emails to GCHQ, resigned yesterday, saying he had “become a distraction from this government's important work”.
In November 2023, Simons paid PR firm Apco £36,000 to examine the “backgrounds and motivations” of journalists who had reported that the Keir Starmer-backing group failed to declare £730,000 of donations.
The investigation, into
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