Morgan McSweeney has been forced to quit as Downing Street chief of staff as the scandal over Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US despite his links to the convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein escalated.
Sir Keir Starmer, who is fighting to save his premiership, has vowed that the agenda he and Mr McSweeney were working on will not change, with a “relentless” focus on the cost of living.
