Once is unlucky, three times is a pattern: Departures from Starmer’s top team reflect dysfunction in No 10
AThe old word: “Once an accident, twice unlucky but three times a pattern.”
Pandit, who was the main private secretary no. 10 and governed the Prime Minister’s team, was not a home name in any way, but it was still an important gear in Sir Keir Starmer’s Downing Street operation.
The separation took place in a bad attempt to keep the fingerprints away, but its sudden separation underlined a sense of increasing dysfunction in the core of this workers’ government.
As a result, this is now effectively showing the door in a period of less than a year.
Last October, Sue (now Barones) Gray, instead of a power struggle with Morgan Mcsweeney, was forced after what seemed to be a power struggle.
Mcsweeney was responsible for many aspects of Sir Keir’s efforts to transform labor after Jeremy Corbyn years. He directed the rebuilding of the party, the general election campaign and has held anchor in the operation since he forced Gray.
In March, the second departure came when Communication Director Matt Doyle was vaguely transferred to what could be defined as a low -performance media operation in the heart of the government.
Now, only six months later, Pandit was the third wounded of an upper team that still did not shoot into all cylinders.
There are some problems here. First, Starmer has a loyalty problem. He tends to stick to him by those who work with him before and to give them the best jobs even if they could not fulfill them. It was believed that this was the case for Mr. Doyle, whose operation was overwhelmed by the greatness of the government’s realities.
Baroness Gray was different. Starmer believed that he could take the party’s agenda through the government as a highly respected and experienced former officer who knew the internal power arms in Whitehall. When he could not deliver, he became an obvious and easy target that was taken out of a mission to allow a very needed direction change.
Ironically, Mrs. Pandit was part of this change, and the appointment was declared in the same press release, which pointed to Gray’s separation.
It was a Mcsweeney appointment aimed at bringing the organization and focusing on the operation. However, the criticism of the criticisms increased and the dismissal of Mr. Mcsweeney was at the top of a wish list of rebellious labor deputies who went to summer.
The real question is: Who protects this?
One had to carry the box for a government struggling to cope with perceived failures, bad survey scores, restless parliamentary party and increasing economic problems and ongoing immigrant crisis.
However, Nigel Farage and reform seem to follow the workforce in the old heart, because this week Nigel Farage has proved that it was at the center of almost every political story while on the PM on holiday.
The problem is that Pandit’s separation only points to weakness and dysfunction. This government will not change the terrible political narrative hanging like a bad smell.
