Starmer Admits To Trying To Make His Ex-Spin Doctor An Ambassador

Matthew Doyle was later suspended by Labour over his links to a convicted paedophile.

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Keir Starmer has admitted to trying to make his former spin doctor Matthew Doyle an ambassador in prime minister’s questions.

It comes amid the ongoing fallout around the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US, despite the disgraced peer’s known links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Sacked Foreign Office chief, civil servant Olly Robbins, was fielding questions about how Mandelson failed security vetting – and still got the top job – on Tuesday.

He also told MPs the prime minister wanted to give his director of communications a senior diplomatic job over the head of........

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