Morgan McSweeney quits as PM’s chief of staffpublished at 14:20 14:20Breaking
We’ve just learnt that Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has resigned.
“After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself,” he says in a statement.
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Starmer said he had ‘full confidence’ in McSweeney a couple of days back. That phrase always used to be the knell of doom. Nice to see that some things remain constant in the current political world.