🏛️ Politics 9h ago · Andrew Marr

This is not the Morgan McSweeney I know

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It is time to talk about Morgan McSweeney. Before his evidence session to the Foreign Affairs Committee on 28 April, he was treated as a semi-mythical figure, a shy, woodland creature occasionally caught by the camera with a phone glued to his cheek and a wary expression. Shy, but dangerous. For the left of the Labour Party, he was an existential threat with the potency of Georgy Zhukov and the guile of Machiavelli, the most provocative Irishman since Wolfe Tone.



McSweeney had been a reliable

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