Top staff desert UK PM amid Epstein scandal fallout

Keir Starmer’s communications director has stepped down a day after the prime minister’s chief of staff resigned

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s director of communications, Tim Allan, has quit amid the continuing fallout linking a senior Labour Party figure to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Starmer has been severely damaged by his decision to appoint party colleague Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the US, despite his known links to Epstein.