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…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”