{"id":72723,"date":"2026-02-15T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/jonathan-powell-rejects-overtures-to-replace-mcsweeney-as-starmers-chief-of-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:00:10","slug":"jonathan-powell-rejects-overtures-to-replace-mcsweeney-as-starmers-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/jonathan-powell-rejects-overtures-to-replace-mcsweeney-as-starmers-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Powell rejects overtures to replace McSweeney as Starmer\u2019s chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a523b8b60cc34630daa76fa1d1ee28f0c18bbde8\/0_150_1979_1583\/master\/1979.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=774416424433647d92c4154b04b4a8fc\" alt=\"Jonathan Powell rejects overtures to replace McSweeney as Starmer\u2019s chief of staff\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Jonathan Powell rejects overtures to replace McSweeney as Starmer\u2019s chief of staff<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Exclusive: National security adviser previously held the role under Blair but is considering plans to step down this yearJonathan Powell, Keir Starmer\u2019s national security adviser (NSA), has rejected overtures to become the prime minister\u2019s chief of staff after the resignation of Morgan McSweeney, the Guardian has been told.Powell\u2019s allies say his decision not to take forward discussions about the job \u2013 the same role he undertook under Tony Blair\u2019s premiership from 1997 to 2007 \u2013 was largely motivated by an intention to return to the mediation consultancy that he set up in 2011, with little interest in returning to a job he has already done. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/15\/jonathan-powell-rejects-replacing-morgan-mcsweeney-starmer-chief-of-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Jonathan Powell rejects overtures to replace McSweeney as Starmer\u2019s chief of staff Exclusive: National security adviser previously held the role under Blair but is considering plans to step down this yearJonathan Powell, Keir Starmer\u2019s national security adviser (NSA), has rejected overtures to become the prime minister\u2019s chief of staff after the resignation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}