McSweeney on Resignation Watch After Starmer’s Media Freelancing – Guido Fawkes

EXC: McSweeney on Resignation Watch After Starmer’s Media Freelancing

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There are swirling rumours about the fate of the man who made Starmer. The McIavelli was subject to media briefing over the welfare rebellion last week…

Government sources say there were fears that Downing Street chief of staff Morgan McSweeney was on the verge of resignation on Friday after Starmer began his impromptu media round by ‘dropping a Baldwin‘ then giving further whingeing interviews over the weekend which went down terribly. A personal repudiation of the ongoing McSweeney project which took Labour from its worst loss since 1935 to a landslide within five years…

SpAds to whom Guido has spoken for the most part don’t expect him to quit. As pundits point out Guido is arrestingly well-sourced – Starmer is being advised by old timers Louise Casey and Jonathan Powell who are not fans of the current personnel set up in Downing Street. Ire is directed at the political team in Downing Street which is seen as excessively junior, as well as at political director Claire Reynolds, who is said to have bungled the management of the now-rebellious Parliamentary Labour Party over welfare. Last month Reynolds was reported to have told MPs that the Labour vision for Britain was a “work in progress.” If Morgan stays there has got to be staff movement somewhere…