
Labour Together to rebrand after scandal involving secret probe of journalists
Labour Together, the think tank that helped deliver Keir Starmer's 2024 election landslide, is set to rebrand in mid-May after being rocked by scandal. The organization faced controversy when its then-director Josh Simons paid lobbying firm APCO Worldwide to conduct secret research into journalists investigating undisclosed donations. Simons, now a Labour MP, resigned as a government minister over the affair. New chief executive Alison Phillips says the rebrand will address perceptions of a 'factional boys' club' and that staff secondments to ministerial offices and donations to individual MPs will end.