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No 10 considered giving Starmer aide diplomat job, sacked official says
Sacked former Foreign Office permanent secretary Sir Olly Robbins told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that Downing Street discussed giving Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s then-director of communications Lord Doyle a diplomatic head of mission role, instructing him not to inform the then foreign secretary. Lord Doyle denies seeking or being aware of such discussions; current Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper expressed concern, while critics frame this as part of a pattern of questionable judgment by Starmer, including Doyle’s past links to a convicted sex offender and the appointment of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador.
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