She has been in submit lower than a yr and is the third senior aide to Sir Keir to depart their position in 12 months, after chief of employees Sue Grey and director of communications Matt Doyle.
The BBC experiences that the PM had “become concerned” that Ms Pandit was “ineffective” within the position, although a Downing Avenue supply insisted that Ms Pandit retained Sir Keir’s “trust and confidence”.
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It’s price noting that Mr Doyle and Ms Grey had been political appointees, whereas Ms Pandit is a civil servant.
In line with her biography on the federal government web site, Ms Pandit was the director of the Downing Avenue coverage unit from late 2022, when Rishi Sunak was prime minister.
Earlier than that, she labored on well being coverage in Downing Avenue, and was chief of employees and lead coverage adviser to the NHS England CEO.
Downing Avenue declined to touch upon inside staffing.
In a weblog submit from 2021, former Downing Avenue aide Dominic Cummings mentioned Ms Pandit was “one of the many brilliant young women I saw around the table who would have been a 10 [times] better PM than [Boris Johnson]”.
The principal non-public secretary runs the prime minister’s non-public workplace and manages the civil service crew in Downing Avenue.
