The ex-communications chief was made a Labour peer after leaving Downing Street in March 2025, but was suspended from the parliamentary party this February over links with a convicted sex offender.

Sacked civil servant says No 10 pushed Foreign Office to find diplomatic role for Matthew Doyle, without mentioning it to foreign secretary

Matthew Doyle, Keir Starmer’s former communications chief, was suspended by Labour over his past association with paedophile councillor Sean Morton