Morgan McSweeney was born on 1977 and is an Irish-born political strategist based in the United Kingdom.
21 Facts About Morgan McSweeney
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Morgan McSweeney has served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Keir Starmer since October 2024.
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Morgan McSweeney was born in 1977 in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland.
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Morgan McSweeney's aunt was a councillor for Fine Gael and his first cousin, Clare Mungovan, was special adviser to the Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar as of October 2023.
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Morgan McSweeney migrated to London in 1994 aged 17, initially working on building sites and later attempting university, though he dropped out within 12 months.
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Morgan McSweeney spent several months living in the Sarid kibbutz in Israel in the late 1990s.
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Morgan McSweeney tried university second time at age 21, studying marketing and politics at Middlesex University.
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In 1997, motivated by backing for the Good Friday Agreement, Morgan McSweeney joined the Labour Party, and in 2001 he was hired to work as an intern receptionist and in the party's attack and rebuttal unit in Millbank, where he input data into Peter Mandelson's "Excalibur" database.
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Morgan McSweeney then moved on to campaign for Steve Reed for the 2006 Lambeth London Borough Council election, working to take control of the council from the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, gaining a reputation as a "formidable organiser," according to The Guardian.
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Morgan McSweeney simultaneously ran as a council candidate in the 2006 Sutton London Borough Council election, which he lost with 149 votes.
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Morgan McSweeney then worked as chief of staff for Reed in Lambeth Council.
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Morgan McSweeney worked with the council's leadership, developing communication strategies for the 17 wards in the community including the re-establishment of a duty on residents to keep their front gardens clean, focusing on patriotism and crime as campaign points.
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Morgan McSweeney became director of the think tank group Labour Together in 2017, reporting to a board that included Reed, Lisa Nandy, Jon Cruddas and Trevor Chinn, and serving as company secretary.
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Morgan McSweeney was then recruited to run Starmer's 2020 campaign for Labour leader, which Starmer won.
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In September 2021 Morgan McSweeney was appointed as Labour's director of campaigns.
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Morgan McSweeney worked to impose a new MP selection process for the Labour Party, centralising the longlisting of candidates which largely locked out left wing candidates and those connected to Corbyn's leadership.
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Morgan McSweeney led preparations for the 2024 general election, with Scotland being a priority target for his campaigning.
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Morgan McSweeney made contact with members of the US Democratic Party and Australian Labor Party, respectively Neera Tanden and Anthony Albanese, to discuss election tactics.
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Morgan McSweeney argued in a December 2023 shadow cabinet meeting that despite Labour's significant lead in national polls, six different elections from around the world were examples of leads reversing once campaigns began.
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Morgan McSweeney privately rejected the idea and insisted that he worked well with Gray.
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Morgan McSweeney is married to Imogen Walker, a Labour politician who has served as the MP for Hamilton and Clyde Valley since 2024.