Senior Starmer aide quits over ‘sexually explicit messages about Diane Abbott’ in new blow to PM
Senior Download Street The family resigned after the “sexual open” messages he wrote Labor force Deputy Diane Abbott revealed.
Number 10Strategy Director Paul Ovenden left on Monday, when the e -mails he sent in 2017.
The former Pazar newspaper journalist started to work for the Labor Party in 2014 and is a close ally of both the Prime Minister and the Chief of General Staff Morgan Mcsweeney.
From the Oven, he resigned to the government to avoid being a “distraction”. scandal In recent weeks.
E -mails are part of a internal message cache, which was leaked in 2020 and shows that senior workers’ officials are explicitly planned against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Who is Paul Ovenden?
Paul Ovenden was the strategy director at number 10 until Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation from January this year to his resignation. Mr. Ovenden resigned after his messages by making terrible sexual comments about former workers’ deputy Diane Abbott.
In 2014, he started his career as a journalist who worked in Sunday Telegraph and Sky before joining the Labor Party as a press officer under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Mr. Ovenden served as Deputy Communication Manager at the leadership of Sir Keir.
During his time under Sir Keir, he served as the director of the party’s attack and refutation of the party, which took the responsibility of supplying information to harm the conservative election campaign. At the same time, he tried to defend Sir Keir from political and personal attacks on the media.
He also worked as a special consultant for Sir Keir from July 2024 until today after the Open sexual messages about Diane Abbott were received by ITV News.
Mr. Ovenden is said to have discussed his comments about sex actions including Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP MS Abbott.
No 10 spokesman said: “These messages are terrible and unacceptable. Diane Abbott, the first black woman chosen for parliament, has faced a terrible abuse throughout her political career.
“Such comments have no place in our politics.”
The latest coup and labor deputies for Sir Keir Starmer are coming while hugging high -profile sacks and resignations in recent weeks. Angela Rayner, who left the tax scandal as Deputy Prime Minister following And the Lord Peter Mandelson, Pedophil Jeffrey Epstein about his relationship with a British ambassador is fired.
The Labor Party follows Nigel Farage’s reform UK in public opinion polls and A series of councils lost their elections Sir Keir became prime minister last July.
A Reorganization last week, the cabinet saw a few ministers dismissed And a liquidation of the home office accused of preventing reforms to stop small boats.
The worker suspended Mrs. Abbott from the party for the second time in July after saying that she did not regret her past words about racism.
Lord Peter Mandelson and Sir Keir Starmer (Pa Wire)
At that time, he said, “This labor leadership wants me,” he said.
Speaking before Mr. Ovenden’s resignation on Monday, Abbott said to Times Radio: orum I don’t want to say that we should have a new leader tomorrow, but we know it would be a big election set in May, including Scotland and Wales.
“And we know that everyone says that we will do it badly, not at least Scottish and Galli MPs. And I think if we do as bad as people say, Starmer’s future will end as the workers’ leader and work prime minister.”
On Monday, Sir Keir said that if he knew the full scope of his relationship with Pedophil Financier Epstein, he would not be able to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as the US Ambassador.
The Prime Minister dismissed Lord Mandelson last week, but encountered questions about his judgment on appointing his peers, public knowledge with Epstein.
After the publication of Epstein and E -mail exchanges, Sir Keir gave a public support to Lord Mandelson’s questions the Prime Minister’s questions the next day.
Prime Minister told publishers that Lord Mandelson had passed the process of detection before the appointment. But he added: “If I knew that I knew now, I would never throw it.”
