Monday, February 16, 2026

Andrew Neil: Labour Together’s Smear Campaign Against Our Journalists Is ‘Totalitarian’

Feb 16, 2026 | “It was the kind of smear propaganda that totalitarian governments authoritarian governments use.”

The Cabinet Office used to be the Rolls Royce of the British civil service, says Andrew Neil. Now, it’s “barely a Trabant” that can’t be trusted to look into the smear campaign against Sunday Times journalists by Labour Together.



Keir Starmer is clueless! He loves his bans and restrictions. This social media ban for under-16s will probably turn out to be a disaster and his generational smoking ban most certainly will. In any case, these are parenting issues, not government-interference issues. — © Mark Alexander