Keir Starmer is a prime minister who cannot catch a break, even as he breaks cover to launch a fightback to save his premiership.
Moments after he delivered a “put up or shut up” message to his critics and rivals in a moment of defiance over his future as prime minister, news broke that Lord Matthew Doyle, the man he chose as his first director of communications and then personally appointed to the Lords, had been suspended by Labour over links to a paedophile.
