Keir Starmer’s head of communications Tim Allan steps down – UK politics live

Director of communications at Downing St says ‘I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built’Tim Allan has left his post as director of communications at No 10, Pippa Crerar reports.EXCL: Tim Allan, Keir Starmer’s director of communications, steps down from Downing Street role. “I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success,” he said.Tim Allan is Starmer’s fourth director of comms to go since taking office 19 months ago. Suggests the problem isn’t the communications team…The government appears to be collapsing into chaos. Now the prime minister has no authority. There’s an outright revolt against him from his own members of parliament and the cabinet.Nothing is going to happen now. Government will be brought to a standstill. I’ve seen this up close in previous Conservative governments. There’ll be no agenda. The issues that people are facing in their daily lives - whether it’s wages, energy bills, crime, immigration, the NHS - are all just going to go into stasis now and the public are going to be let down very badly in the weeks and the months to come. Continue reading...