Senior Starmer aide to face down
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Sir Keir Starmer’s director of communications Matthew Doyle is to step down from his position after simply 9 months within the submit.
The 49-year-old served as a particular adviser to former prime minister Tony Blair and led communications for Liz Kendall’s management marketing campaign in 2015.
Doyle wrote in a letter to colleagues in Downing Road that “once I began working for Keir 4 years in the past, not many individuals thought we might win a basic election and definitely not within the emphatic means we did”.
He added: “I’m extremely pleased with the half I’ve performed in returning our celebration to authorities and the change we’re already bringing to the nation,” he wrote, including “now it’s time to cross the baton on”.
He’s the newest member of Starmer’s workers to go away, after chief of workers Sue Grey departed final October following months of damaging press about her management inside Downing Road.
James Lyons, a former journalist who was beforehand head of communications at tech group TikTok, will take over from Doyle.
Lyons was introduced into Quantity 10 late final yr to work on strategic communications because the then-new Labour authorities was battling various communications battles, significantly across the acceptance of freebies, many from Labour donor and peer Waheed Alli.
Doyle’s departure was first reported by the Guardian.
