Top Starmer aide quits over sexually explicit Diane Abbott messages
After one of the best assistants of Sir Keir Starmer, his senior left -wing deputy Diane Abbott exchanged sexually open messages.
With a new coup to the surrounding Prime Minister, Paul Ovenden announced that he had abandoned the role of Downing Street as the strategy director to avoid being “distraction önce after the 2017 messages were revealed.
For more than a decade, the former journalist, who has been working for the Labor Party, reportedly exchanged E -Post with a colleague with sexual clear words about Mrs. Abbott.
In a statement to ITV News, Mr. Ovenden said: “I am accused of a young press officer who shared the details of a stupid conversation with a female colleague with a female colleague eight years ago.
“Before the summer, I announced my intention to leave some of my colleagues.
“Even though my current employment and my relationship with the Prime Minister dated a long time, I have put forward my resignation in order to avoid getting away from the vital work that this government has done to change people’s lives in a positive way.
“My duty as a consultant is to protect the reputation of the Prime Minister and the Government.
“Even though it is creepy for a special conversation almost a decade ago to cause such damage, I am really sad and the damage it will cause.”
“These messages are terrible and unacceptable. Diane Abbott, the first black woman chosen for parliament, is a passenger that has faced a terrible abuse throughout her political career.
“Such comments have no place in our politics.”
The separation of Mr. Ovenden comes after Angela Rayner’s resignation and last week’s dismissal of Peter Mandelson as the US Ambassador to the USA.
Faced with anger from the Labor Party on the leadership, the prime minister is pressing on the prime minister, and in the party surveys, the reform is constantly behind Britain.
If the results are bad for the labor force as expected, the speculation is being built that may be forced after the local elections of May.
On Monday, MP Richard Burgon for Leeds East said that the prime minister should go to May, saying that the prime minister should “immediately change the lesson veya or that the prime minister would be forced to quit.
Workers Deputy Clive Lewis came after Sir Keir’s warning on Friday after his warning that he was not “ready to work ,, Deputy Graham Streter Sir Keir said that he was“ supporting in the last lucky hall ”.
Mrs. Abbott is now in a controversial letter he wrote in 2023, after being suspended by Emek by Emek, he sits independently by comparing different types of racism according to color.
After writing the letter, he was suspended in 2023 from the Labor Party of Parliament. Observer.
He apologized for any anguish caused by the words that were criticized by Jewish and travel groups and returned to the party before the 2024 general elections.
But in July, he said he didn’t look at the incident with regret.
Sir Keir’s leadership became a long -lasting critic, and in May he warned that the local elections were a make -up moment for PM.
He was asked to comment on labor.
