Another one bites the dust: Steph Driver, Keir Starmer’s head of communications, has announced she will leave No. 10 – making her the latest Starmer aide to quit. Driver was a loyal companion to the Prime Minister even before his election, spending five years as his chief of communications when he was in opposition. She became deputy director after Labour’s 2024 landslide victory before more recently being promoted to director of communications in Downing Street. Her resignation, which follows a period of bereavement leave, will come as a huge loss to the PM whom, it is understood, was one of many senior figures who tried to persuade her to stay on.

Driver’s departure is the latest in a series of resignations by trusted Starmer aides

Driver’s departure is the latest in a series of resign

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