Not another one. On Sunday it was Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, who took one for the team by resigning over the Peter Mandelson appointment. On Monday, No 10’s head of communications, Tim Allan, did likewise without offering much by way of an explanation.
Presumably it was a last stand to defend the boss against the circling wagons. “We need a futile gesture, chaps.” No matter that most normal people won’t have heard of either of them. Let alone be able to identify them in a police lineup.
It’s a war of attrition inside Downing Street. It can’t be long before a couple of cleaners also resign because they too feel a bit guilty about not warning Starmer that they had misgivings about Mandelson. Then Keir will be left on his own to rattle around inside No 10, with only the echoes of his own voice to keep him company. That’s assuming he is still on the Mary Celeste, of course.
Come Monday afternoon, Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, became the most prominent
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