Morgan McSweeney – Keir Starmer’s closest aide and confidante – has left the Number 10 operation.

Our editor-in-chief Tom McTague asks, is it the beginning of the end for the Prime Minister – or the end of the beginning?

He speaks to deputy editor Will Lloyd.

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