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Overview
- Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald resigned with Keir Starmer’s agreement, becoming the third senior figure to leave in recent days, according to a government statement reported Thursday.
- Starmer said in a video statement on Wednesday that he will not step down and pledged to focus on tackling the cost of living.
- Matthew Doyle, Starmer’s former communications chief who was nominated to the House of Lords, was suspended from the Labour Party and resigned his Lords seat after links to ex‑MP Sean Morton were revealed.
- Doyle apologized and called his past support for Morton after the 2016 indictment a clear failure of judgment; Morton was convicted for possessing child abuse images in 2018 and again in 2025.
- Police have opened a criminal investigation linked to files showing Peter Mandelson’s financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, while the Conservatives press for accountability and Scottish Labour’s leader has tempered earlier calls for Starmer to quit.