K EIR STARMER’S CHIEF of staff, Cork native Morgan McSweeney, is the highest paid UK Government special adviser, new figures ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is the highest paid Government special adviser, new figures have indicated. Morgan ...

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff is the highest paid special adviser, government figures show. Morgan ...

Morgan McSweeney is paid between £155,000 and £159,999, according to data released by the Cabinet Office on Thursday.

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In the days after Labour’s 2024 election victory, at an event with Barack Obama’s former strategist David Axelrod, Morgan McSweeney declared that the new government would be i ...

McSweeney admits there is still more work to be done For him to reach such a level. "It seems that I have done quite a bit of stuff, but in the big picture, I still have a long way to go," he said.

Until this week, Morgan McSweeney, 47, a softly-spoken but intense Irishman with a red beard, has been a background figure, happiest pulling the strings out of view.