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Cabinet Office PPS Naushabah Khan was the latest Labour aide to step down on Monday as pressure mounted on Sir Keir Starmer.
Ms Khan called for “new leadership, so that we can rebuild trust and deliver the better future that the British people voted for”.
It comes as Joe Morris, a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, and Tom Rutland, a PPS to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds, urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure as they quit on Monday.
Sally Jameson, a PPS to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, has also joined around 60 Labour MPs calling for Sir Keir to resign.
Naushabah Khan told Times Radio that resigning “hasn’t been an easy decision”.
She said: “It’s not something that I’ve taken lightly at all. I’ve been a committed Labour member for years, but I’ve got to the stage where as an MP who was elected in 2024, I’ve got deeply frustrated with how things are working at the minute.
“The reality is, Keir Starmer’s done a fantastic job in leading our party through an election and getting us to where we were in the majority we’ve got and I recognise that completely but unfortunately, these last local elections have shown us that it’s just not working any more when we speak to people out there on the doorsteps, and we hear time and time again that we don’t trust your leader, we don’t support your leader, we can’t back this.”
She said the party needed to “rethink how we do this” to restore people’s support, adding: “I don’t feel that the Prime Minister said enough this morning to be able to address that.”
Naushabah Khan’s statement in full
“The message from last week’s elections was clear: the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the public.
“Since being elected to serve the people of Gillingham & Rainham, I have always and will always put the interests of my constituents and our country first. It is with that commitment in mind that I have taken the difficult decision to resign my role as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Cabinet Office.
“Our country faces unprecedented challenges. The people of Gillingham & Rainham and the country deserve leadership that can deliver on scale. I did not enter politics to stand by while we fail.
“We need a clear change of direction now and no game playing. A Labour Government can and will rise to meet the moment if we act now.
“I am calling for new leadership, so that we can rebuild trust and deliver the better future that the British people voted for.”
