{"id":231293,"date":"2026-02-09T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/uks-starmer-loses-second-key-aide-in-fallout-from-epstein-scandal-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:25:23","slug":"uks-starmer-loses-second-key-aide-in-fallout-from-epstein-scandal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/uks-starmer-loses-second-key-aide-in-fallout-from-epstein-scandal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&rsquo;s Starmer loses second key aide in fallout from Epstein scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Keir Starmer&rsquo;s communications chief, Tim Allan, resigned on Monday, saying he was making way for a new team to be built to support the British leader who is under fire over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Allan&rsquo;s departure comes just a \u200bday after Starmer&rsquo;s closest aide, Morgan McSweeney, resigned saying he took responsibility for pushing the appointment of Mandelson, whose close links to late \u200dsex offender Jeffrey Epstein have raised questions about Starmer&rsquo;s judgment and his ability to govern.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer&rsquo;s communications chief, Tim Allan, resigned on Monday, saying he was making way for a new team to be built to support the British leader who is under fire over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Allan&rsquo;s departure comes just a \u200bday after Starmer&rsquo;s closest aide, Morgan McSweeney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-231293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}