{"id":98203,"date":"2025-08-28T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:44:08","slug":"starmer-sacks-his-principal-private-secretary-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98203\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer Sacks His Principal Private Secretary \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Starmer Sacks His Principal Private Secretary    <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tmdi-fullscreen<\/p>\n<p>Starmer has sacked his PPS Nin Pandit. Briefed to the BBC this morning\u2026<\/p>\n<p>After joining in November 2024 post-Sue Gray she is \u201cexpected to be given another role in government\u201d and the BBC is told she \u201cretains his confidence.\u201d There will be some sighs of relief among political appointees in government\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As co-conspirators will have read on these pixels Pandit has been on the receiving end of <a href=\"https:\/\/order-order.com\/2025\/06\/20\/exc-starmers-one-year-anniversary-marred-by-no10-and-cabinet-office-infighting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticism<\/a> for being \u201chopeless,\u201d abrasive, and ineffective in government. Which the BBC has been told by Downing Street now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The finger was also pointed at Pandit for <a href=\"https:\/\/order-order.com\/2025\/08\/08\/launch-of-rayners-dpm-office-blocked-by-downing-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blocking<\/a> the launch of Rayner\u2019s ODPM. Starmer\u2019s slow-moving personnel circus marches on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer Sacks His Principal Private Secretary mdi-fullscreen Starmer has sacked his PPS Nin Pandit. Briefed to the BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3907,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-98203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-downing-street","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}