https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13915769/DAN-HODGES-Mysterious-talks-Lord-Alli-Syrian-dictator-Assad-beg-question-hell-guy.html
No one I’ve spoken to over the past few days seems to know.
‘He’s just a fixture,’ one minister told me, in a phrase that has been deployed a lot since the scandal broke. ‘He’s always been around Keir, it’s not a secret. There’s no real scandal here.’
Maybe there isn’t. But no one has yet come up with any rational explanation for why Alli was handed a temporary Downing Street pass within a week of Starmer becoming Prime Minister, even though he has no official government title or responsibilities.
‘He’s a fixer,’ one senior Government aide explained, deploying another of those abstractions that attach themselves to the mysterious peer.
‘What does he fix?’ I asked.
‘Things for Keir around the office,’ was the equally non-specific reply. ‘He really just wants a Labour government. That’s all he’s interested in.’
But it isn’t. Last week the Guido Fawkes website trawled through Hansard and uncovered something rather strange.
Alli rarely speaks in the House of Lords, and his limited contributions have tended to focus on the issue of same-sex marriage (Alli is gay) and the media.
But in 2013, as Britain was contemplating military action against Syria, he rose to make the following intervention.
https://archive.ph/Mvcj6
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