Rachel Reeves’ top adviser Matt Pound to leave government role
A top aide to Rachel Reeves has announced that she will resign following the spring announcement.
The Chancellor is understood to have reached a mutual agreement with his political secretary, Matt Pound, that the time would be right for him to leave the Government following next week’s financial update.
Mr Pound has long-standing links with Sir Keir Starmer, although he has been one of Ms Reeves’ top advisers since the general election.
After working on the Prime Minister’s leadership campaign in 2020, he became head of Sir Keir’s political organization while in opposition and then became Labour’s political director for elections in the run-up to landslide victory in 2024.
Announcing his departure, Mr Pound said he would be “forever grateful” for working with Ms Reeves to “rebuild our economy after 14 years of Tory chaos”.
He said: “We have come a long way to take Labor from election oblivion in 2019 to a historic general election victory just five years later, and it is a privilege to be a part of it.
“Rachel and my wonderful colleagues, I will continue to support you as we work to deliver the change the country needs over the years.”
Ms Reeves said Mr Pound had played a “pivotal” role in transforming the party and securing Labor’s election victory, while also playing “an essential role in fixing the fundamentals of the economy and delivering the change we were elected to make”.
He added: “I am incredibly grateful to him for his hard work, loyalty and expertise and wish him all the best going forward.”
Mr Pound became the latest in a series of senior Labor advisers to resign this year after Sir Keir’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and communications director Tim Allan resigned in the wake of the Peter Mandelson scandal.
