THE Cabinet Office minister at the heart of the Labour Together spy scandal has been referred to the Prime Minister’s ethics watchdog, MPs were told today.Josh Simons ran the think tank when it allegedly paid for a probe into journalists who covered the group’s failure to declare more than £700,000 in donations linked to PM Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to power.The Labour MP for Makerfield in north-west England has faced calls to resign from his ministerial post over the scandal.

THE Cabinet Office minister at the heart of the Labour Together spy scandal has been referred to the Prime Minister’s ethics watchdog, MPs were told today.

Josh Simons ran the think tank when it allegedly paid for a probe into journalists who covered the group’s failure to declare more than £700,000 in donations linked to PM Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to power.

The Labour MP for Makerfield in north-west England has faced calls to resign from his ministerial post over the scandal.

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