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No 10 insists Starmer is ‘upbeat and confident’ – after being asked if he will resign today
Downing Street has said Sir Keir Starmer is “upbeat and confident” – after being asked if he will resign today.
It follows the resignations of the PM’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney yesterday, and this morning, his fourth director of communications in government, Tim Allan.
Responding to that question from journalists, the prime minister’s official spokesperson replied: “No.”
“The prime minister is concentrating on the job in hand,” they said.
“He is getting on with the job of delivering change across the country.”
They later said that Starmer is “upbeat and confident”.
He “remains determined to tackle the job in hand”, the spokesperson added.
Asked if Starmer is confident he holds the unanimous support of the cabinet, they replied: “Yes.”
They also refused to say if Allan was sacked and what he meant in his resignation statement that he quit to “allow a new Number 10 team to be built British PM Starmer faces turmoil over Epstein scandal
Morgan McSweeney, PM Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, announced his resignation on Sunday. He was once a protégé of former minister and ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson, who fell from grace over his friendship with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Mandelson only lasted six months in Washington: Starmer abruptly dismissed him in September 2025, after the US Department of Justice released an initial wave of files pertaining to the Epstein case, which showed that Mandelson had had a much closer relationship with the billionaire than he had previously admitted. “I advised the prime minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibility for that advice,” McSweeney said, in a statement sent to the BBC. He also acknowledged that the decision “was wrong,” as it “damaged our party, our country and trust in politics
