When it rains for Starmer, it pours. As if the Prime Minister didn’t have enough on his plate – what with his deputy Angela Rayner resigning over her tax affairs before Starmer sacked Peter Mandelson from his ambassador role over his links to Jeffrey Epstein – now one of his top aides has quit over sexually explicit messages. Uh oh…

It transpires that Paul Ovenden had exchanged messages with a former colleague in 2017 in which he discussed a game of ‘shag, marry, kill’ involving Labour MP Diane Abbott. In the messages, Ovenden – a close ally of Morgan McSweeney – retold a rather graphic account of the story in which two women described performing sex acts on the now 71-year-old MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Good heavens…

Speaking to ITV News, Ovenden conceded he had been invo

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