Labour Denies Media Passes to Declassified Journalists for Third Straight Year

The Labour Party denied media accreditation to journalists from Declassified UK for a third consecutive year at its party conference, the investigative outlet reported, according to coverage by the Guardian.

Declassified said three of its journalists were refused media passes, continuing a pattern the outlet has criticized in previous years. Labour has said it reserves the right to reject applications where it cannot find evidence that an applicant is a working journalist or photographer with a political portfolio, or is working on behalf of a relevant media outlet.

Separately, the Guardian's reporting on the conference period included figures obtained by the newspaper showing a record £66 million in emergency security funding issued by the Home Office for mosques and related community sites following the violent disorder that spread after the 2024 Southport attacks. The same reporting cited a further roughly £41 million issued for mosque security under the government's protective security scheme for the year from April 2025 to 2026.

The funding figures and the accreditation dispute both emerged amid the Guardian's wider live coverage of Labour's conference, which also touched on a range of other political developments during the event.

Declassified UK has previously said its exclusion from Labour conferences limits scrutiny of the party's foreign and security policy positions, a characterization Labour has not directly addressed in public statements on the accreditation decisions.