Exclusive: National safety consultant previously held the role under Blair but is thinking about plans to step down this year
Jonathan Powell, Keir Starmer’s national safety and security consultant (NSA), has denied overtures to become the prime minister’s chief of team after the resignation of Morgan McSweeney, the Guardian has actually been told.Powell’s allies state his choice not to take forward discussions about the work– the same role he took on under Tony Blair’s premiership from 1997 to 2007– was greatly inspired by an intention to return to the arbitration working as a consultant that he established in 2011, with little passion in returning to a work he has currently done. Continue analysis … Source: The Guardian