Starmer’s top aide made low-key Brussels trip as No 10’s EU reset efforts continue

Morgan McSweeney is playing an instrumental part in No 10’s foreign policy agenda. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, made a below-the-radar trip to Brussels last month, as No 10 prepares to appoint its own foreign affairs adviser to help bolster the Downing Street policy operation.

As the UK’s attempts at a “reset” with the EU continue behind closed doors, No 10’s most senior aide made the trip to meet counterparts in Brussels before Christmas.