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As Labour Together has been in the news a lot in recent months, here’s a breakdown of who’s been funding it.

We focused on Electoral Commission data for donations to Labour Together over the value of £40,000. And the following individuals have given the biggest donations:

Martin Taylor

Gary Lubner

David Sainsbury and Francesca Perrin

Trevor Chinn

Stuart Roden

Labour Together itself has donated over £1.1m in total to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party since late 2023.

Lambeth Green Party has slammed “disgraceful” Labour austerity. And it’s going to mobilise members for a UNISON-backed protest outside the council’s budget-setting meeting at 6pm on 4 March.

The Greens added that, if they were to form an administration in May, they would put Lambeth at the centre of a network of “anti-cuts councils”, mobilising against central government austerity.

Labour- cuts, cuts, cuts

Key ministerial meeting data for Labour cabinet member Steve Reed is currently missing from the government’s transparency register. The missing information concerns three month’s worth of meetings between January and March 2025, that the Streatham and Croydon North MP held with external organisations and individuals while acting Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The family of murdered Chris Kaba are to hold a vigil marking three years since police shot and killed him. His family posted on social media, asking people to join the vigil:

On Friday, 5 September 2025, it will be three years since Chris Kaba was shot and killed by firearms officer Martyn Blake in Streatham Hill.

We will gather where Chris’s life was taken, to honour him, to stand with his family, and to continue resisting until answers are given and accountability is real.

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ITV reported Helen Keenan got more than she asked for (literally) on the red carpet for Downton Abbey’s new film. Hugh Bonneville, who plays family patriarch Lord Grantham on the show, used the opportunity to talk about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

X (Twitter) user Lorna_TVeditor went viral with a clip:

When asked about his upcoming film, Hugh Bonneville appeared to start his answer perfectly normally. Then, picking up the pace so that he couldn’t be cut off, the actor masterfully switched topic: