It’s a day ending in ‘y’, which means another Labour scandal. Today marks the return of Lord Alli, the media luvvy with more money than sense. Alli, famed for perfecting TV ‘presented by morons for morons’, hit the headlines last month for the ‘passes for glasses’ row. Now it seems he has also been making recommendations for posts and public appointments which are due to open up over the course of this parliament. Talk about the grift that keeps on giving…
According to Bloomberg News, Alli was making recommendations while he was soliciting donations for the Labour party. The project, which he has apparently been worked on since early 2024, was unbelievably named, er, ‘Operation Integrity’.
The irony may well have been lost on Sir Keir, but it certainly won’t have been on the rest of us, following a series of suspect appointments which have raised eyebrows across Whitehall and Westminster. Of course, Sir Keir isn’t the only one on Labour’s front bench with problems, although they all seem curiously reluctant to show any transparency over the issue.
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