Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages | Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer’s Senior Advisor, eight years ago, he resigned after he announced that he sent inappropriate messages about Workers Deputy Diane Abbott.

Paul Ovenden left details about a sexual WhatsApp speech in 2017, and after the Prime Minister’s political strategy director.

His resignation is another mishap for the surrounded prime minister who has separated the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Washington Ambassador Peter Mandelson in the last two weeks.

Messages show that a friend who joked about a party where Ovenden and a friend joined the night before Ovenden, the participants show that the longest time in Commons, the workers’ deputy Abbott, who serves the longest serving in Commons.

The couple changed the messages that the people in the party told people about “making love, marry, kill”.

Ovenden said that he was planning to stop after the party conference later in this month later, he did not want to do another distraction for the Starmer government.

On Monday, he said: “As a young press officer eight years ago, I am accused of sharing the details of a stupid conversation with a female colleague and other female staff.

“Before the summer, I have announced my intention to leave the government to some colleagues. Although messages have long been dated to my relationship with the prime minister for a long time, I have put forward my resignation to avoid getting away from the vital work of this government to change the lives of people in a positive way.”

“As a consultant, my duty is to protect the reputation of the Prime Minister and his government. Most people may find a special speech in the PUB or WhatsApp, which will be unpleasant or embarrassing if published in the last decade.

“Although a special conversation can be damaged about ten years ago, it is creepy, but for this, I’m really sorry and not hurting.”

71 -year -old Abbott, emphasized in a report by lawyer Martin Forte, the Labor Party in the Labor Party, computing comments on bullying, racism and sexism, “very unpleasant,” he calls them “very unpleasant.”

A Downing Street spokesman: “These messages are terrible and unacceptable. Diane Abbott as the first black woman chosen for parliament, a passenger that faced a terrible abuse throughout her political career. Such interpretations have no place in our politics.”

Ovenden’s resignation deepens for the Prime Minister’s troubles after two weeks of damage to Rayner, Mandelson and the Downing Street operation in general.

10 came to England on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump, the visit was not willing not to be overshadowed by the domestic scandal.

However, some of the Labor Party believe that Ovenden’s departure will harm the Prime Minister more than the messages in question and expose the Chief of General Staff Morgan Mcsweeney more than ever.

The couple was part of a small and strict Starmer Sadık group, which has been with the prime minister since the first days of workers’ leaders.

The worker’s source said that Ovenden was a “big loss”. “He never wanted a loan, but the fingerprints were victory last year, dedi the person said. “He stayed with labor on miserable days, others walked away.”

Another said: “Paul was the best brain in the government, and for the priorities of voters, instincts and the risk of being introverted without struggling with the mind.”

Ovenden, a former journalist, joined the party as a press officer in 2014 and was doing it during the WhatsApp Stock Exchange.

As he passed to the election, he chaired Labour’s attack unit and prepared a damaging material to other parties. The members of this unit helped inform the 150 newspaper articles that harm their competitors, especially about the conservatives.

Since his entry into the government, the Ovented had played a less front role by working behind the scenes on the political strategy.

Although he already planned his departure, friends said that the resignation decision would cause more damage to the government at a time when the Prime Minister was already confronted with a assembly rebellion against İşbanks.