Sky News
@skynews·9.3M subscribers·76.1K videos
Top Starmer aide resigns after sending sexually explicit messages about Diane Abbott
Posted
September 15, 2025
Views
204,410
Likes
850
Comments
901
Engagement
September 15, 2025
204,410
850
901
0.86%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
3:05Now PlayingA top Downing Street aide has resigned after sending sexually explicit messages about independent MP Diane Abbott, Sky News understands.
Paul Ovenden, who was the director of strategy at No 10, is understood to have left the role after a number of instant messages from 2017 became public.
The messages, exchanged between Ovenden and a female colleague, contained the graphic retelling of a conversation he reportedly overheard about Abbott while at a party.
#skynews #starmer #politics #uknews
SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos
Click here to get the Electoral Dysfunction podcast for free
Politics at Sam and Anne’s podcast is available for free here
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Instagram
Follow us on TikTok
For more content go to and download our appsApple Android
To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
