Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons has left the government amid a row over a thinktank he used to run, which reportedly collected information on journalists.
Sir Keir Starmer recently confirmed that he had asked his ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to look into whether Mr Simons had broken the ministerial code.
Mr Simons said he had been cleared of breaking the code but said that by staying in office he had become a distraction.
It comes following claims that the Labour Together, which Mr Simons ran before entering government, paid for a probe into the background of journalists who ran a negative story on the organisation.
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Labour Together was previously run by Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s former chief of staff, and was closely associated with changes in the party following the departure of Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Simons had been a minister in the Cabinet Office, working on areas such as the government’s digital ID scheme.
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