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…
Douglas Alexander – a friend of Starmer’s – was asked on Sky News if the PM will be in post at the next election. He wasn’t so sure himself:
“I think he will. There are no certainties but of course I think he will lead and I think he should because, frankly, on the biggest call in this parliament he’s exercised the right judgment, which is to keep us out of someone else’s war.”