Keir Starmer was plunged into a fresh crisis today when one of his top aides resigned over sexually explicit messages about Diane Abbott.
Paul Ovenden today quit his role as Director of Strategy after what No10 said were 'appalling and unacceptable' exchanges from 2017 were uncovered.
Mr Ovenden, a former newspaper journalist who began working for Labour in 2014, is a close ally of both the Prime Minister and his under-pressure chief of staff Morgan McSweeney.
The Daily Mail understands that Mr Ovenden had exchanged messages with a former colleague in which he retold a story about a game of 'shag, marry, kill' relating to Ms Abbott he was involved in.
He graphically recounted the conversation in which two women described performing sex acts on Ms Abbott, now 71.
