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Keir Starmer was fighting to salvage his premiership on Monday after the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour figures for the British prime minister to step down, following a bitter fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Tim Allan, Starmer’s director of communications, said Monday that he was quitting the government. It came less than a day after Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s chief of staff and his closest adviser, resigned over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson – a friend of Jeffrey Epstein – as Britain’s ambassador to the United States last year.
Allan’s resignation adds to the sense that the…