Boris Johnson has appointed the ex-chief of a private healthcare firm as No10's new Chief Operating Officer as the embattled Prime Minister tries to move on from Partygate.
Samantha Jones, formerly chief executive of Operose Health, becomes Downing Street's permanent secretary and will help create a "professional operation" as part of a new 'Office of the Prime Minister'.
It comes as Mr Johnson was plunged into a fresh Partygate crisis after the Met said it was reviewing the decision not to investigate a Christmas quiz in December.
