Morgan McSweeney Quits As Starmer's Chief Of Staff Over Mandelson Scandal

Downing Street chief of staff Morgan McSweeney.

Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff as the Peter Mandelson scandal engulfs the government.

The key No.10 aide said he was carrying the can for advising the prime minister to make the disgraced former peer the UK’s ambassador to Washington.

He was sacked after just seven months over his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and now faces a criminal investigation into allegations he passed government...