Third Starmer aide leaving role in 12 months

Sir Keir Starmer's main backstage secretary, Ninjeri Pandit, is leaving her role, Sky News understands.

She has been successful station little than a twelvemonth and is the 3rd elder adjutant to Sir Keir to permission their relation successful 12 months, aft chief of unit Sue Gray and manager of communications Matt Doyle.

The BBC reports that the PM had "become concerned" that Ms Pandit was "ineffective" successful the role, though a Downing Street root insisted that Ms Pandit retained Sir Keir's "trust and confidence".

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It is worthy noting that Mr Doyle and Ms Gray were governmental appointees, portion Ms Pandit is simply a civilian servant.

According to her biography connected the authorities website, Ms Pandit was the manager of the Downing Street argumentation portion from precocious 2022, erstwhile Rishi Sunak was premier minister.

Before that, she worked connected wellness argumentation successful Downing Street, and was main of unit and pb argumentation advisor to the NHS England CEO.

Downing Street declined to remark connected interior staffing.

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In a blog station from 2021, erstwhile Downing Street adjutant Dominic Cummings said Ms Pandit was "one of the galore superb young women I saw astir the array who would person been a 10 [times] amended PM than [Boris Johnson]".

The main backstage caput runs the premier minister's backstage bureau and manages the civilian work squad successful Downing Street.