Downing Street isn’t denying that Starmer attempted to find a cushy ambassadorial job for Matthew Doyle, as Olly Robbins revealed in his explosive Foreign Affairs Select Committee appearance this morning. Speaking at the Lobby briefing of political hacks, the Number 10 spokesman said:
“[Doyle] left his role as Director of Communications in March 2025, he obviously didn’t take up a role in the Foreign Office… beyond that I can’t get into personnel discussions.”
Asked why the then-Foreign Secretary David Lammy was kept out of those discussions, the spokesman repeated the same line again…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”