No. 10 is in fresh crisis this morning as Keir Starmer’s most senior communications chief also departs.
Starmer’s Downing Street is in fresh crisis (Image: Getty)
Keir Starmer’s Downing Street is in fresh crisis this morning after a second very senior aide quit in the space of just 24 hours. The PM’s head of communications, Tim Allan, has said he is leaving to “allow a new No. 10 team to be built”. It’s the Prime Minister’s fourth Chief of Communications in just 18 months, suggesting mass instability.
It comes just a day after Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, quit yesterday over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. Allan followed a line of departed heads of communications in Sir Keir’s No. 10 operation, after Matthew Doyle, James Lyons, and Steph Driver.
Tim Allan (Image: Portland Communications)
Mr Allan’s resignation statement in full read: “I have decided to stand down to allow a new No10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success.”
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