{"id":42877,"date":"2025-09-10T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/labour-comms-director-helped-write-manifesto-while-still-working-at-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:04:44","slug":"labour-comms-director-helped-write-manifesto-while-still-working-at-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/labour-comms-director-helped-write-manifesto-while-still-working-at-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour comms director helped write manifesto while still working at TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: James Lyons rewrote 2024 election pledges \u2018over evenings and weekends\u2019 before his exit from social media company <\/p>\n<p>A senior executive at TikTok helped write the Labour manifesto while still working at the Chinese-owned technology company, he has said.<\/p>\n<p>James Lyons, who left his post as Keir Starmer\u2019s director strategic communications last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7370766726847840256\/\">wrote on LinkedIn<\/a> that he was asked last year to help write the party\u2019s election pledges while he was still working for the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/sep\/10\/labour-comms-director-james-lyons-helped-write-manifesto-working-tiktok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: James Lyons rewrote 2024 election pledges \u2018over evenings and weekends\u2019 before his exit from social media company A senior executive at TikTok helped write the Labour manifesto while still working at the Chinese-owned technology company, he has said. James Lyons, who left his post as Keir Starmer\u2019s director strategic communications last week, wrote on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}