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Sir Keir Starmer’s communications director Matthew Doyle has to leave his role after only nine months in the position.
The 49 -year -old man was special advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair and managed communications for the management campaign of Liz Kendall in 2015.
Doyle wrote in a letter to colleagues from Downing Street that “when I started working for Keir four years ago, few people thought that we could win a general election and certainly not categorically that we did”.
He added: “I am incredibly proud of the role I played to return our party to the government and the change that we already bring to the country,” he wrote, adding “now it is time to pass the stick”.
He is the last member of Starmer staff from the departure of the chief of staff Sue Gray after months of negative press about his management in Downing Street.
James Lyons, a former journalist who was previously communications chief at the Tiktok technological group, will succeed Doyle.
Lyons was introduced into number 10 at the end of last year to work on strategic communications while the new Labor government at the time was fighting against a certain number of communication battles, in particular around the acceptance of gifts, including many working donors and peers Waheed Alli.
Doyle’s departure was reported for the first time by The Guardian.
