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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou

Starmer ‘knew ex-comms chief Lord Doyle supported paedophile councillor’

Sir Keir Starmer nominated a former aide for a peerage despite being told he had “been supportive” of a councillor who had been accused of child sex offences, his ex-communications chief has claimed.

The prime minister is facing continued questions over his judgment in appointing his former spin doctor, Matthew Doyle, to the House of Lords after he campaigned for a councillor who had been charged with having indecent images of children.

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