Former Aide To PM Kier Starmer Claims DEEP STATE Controls UK Government

The UK’s Labour government has been hijacked by a shadowy entity – a bloated network of insiders, NGOs, and lobbyists that diverts power from voters to elite agendas, according to a bombshell column from Paul Ovenden, former director of strategy for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Ovenden, recently ousted amid a personal scandal, has hit back by exposing how an unelected ‘blob’ pushes certain agendas, including the repatriation of British Egyptian extremist Alaa Abd el-Fattah – a man with a history of spewing anti-white racism and calls for violence – as a bizarre obsession, wasting time and resources while everyday Brits suffer from open borders and economic woes.

In his piece for The Times, Ovenden describes the UK version of the Deep State as a “stakeholder state” and “a political perma-class that exists within every party and every department, one whose entire focus is on preserving their status within a system that gives them meaning.”

My first article in @thetimes: our political class prioritises stakeholders over voters. Let’s change it.https://t.co/pbj1Irl9E2

— Paul Ovenden (@OvePM) January 2, 2026

He slams the el-Fattah affair for revealing “the sheer weirdness of how Whitehall spends its time,” noting that senior diplomats’ fixation on the case “became a running joke among my colleagues: a totem of the ceaseless sapping of time and energy by people obsessed with fringe issues.”

TIMES EXCLUSIVE: Keir Starmer must take on the “stakeholder state” that is “emasculating” governments with an obsessive approach to “fringe issues”, his former strategy director has said amid continuing controversy over the Abd El-Fattah case https://t.co/mKQJ0Yvhpp

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) January 1, 2026

Ovenden argues this isn’t some grand conspiracy but a “morbid symptom of a state that has got bigger and bigger while simultaneously and systematically emasculating itself.” Power shifts “away from voters and towards groups with the time, money and institutional access to make themselves too important to ignore.”

“We’re not really properly in control.”

The prime minister's former director of strategy, Paul Ovenden, says we need to “strip back a lot of powers" in some parts of the governmental framework.@OvePM | @ChloeTilley | #TimesRadio pic.twitter.com/qSsY7S4YRB

— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) January 2, 2026

The government, he says, ends up “rowing with muffled oars in order to appease a complex coalition of campaign groups, regulators, litigators, trade bodies and well-networked organisations.”

'They are so much more interested in signalling their status by committing themselves to these totemic progressive issues'.

Charlie Downes and Aaron Bastani respond to Keir Starmer's close ally, Paul Ovenden, blowing the lid off of a 'weird obsession' within the Civil Service. pic.twitter.com/2fiEKJOq8r

— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 2, 2026

The Daily Mail highlights how the el-Fattah case became a “running joke” inside No. 10, with Ovenden accusing civil servants of weird priorities that distract from core objectives.

This comes amid backlash over el-Fattah’s inflammatory past, including posts like “fucking hate white people … a blight on the earth they are” and calls for “random shooting of white males.”

Starmer strangely personally celebrated el-Fattah’s arrival in the UK, calling it a “top priority” despite the extremist’s history of praising Osama bin Laden, denying the Holocaust, and urging violence against police and Zionists.

Now we know why.

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Critics like Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick blasted it as “an absolute disgrace,” accusing the Foreign Office of acting “against the interests of the British people.” Jewish groups decried the move as “reckless,” warning it endangers British Jews.

Ovenden’s exposé draws parallels to Dominic Cummings’ critiques of the deep state under Conservatives, positioning him as a left-wing whistleblower against the same entrenched forces.

It's fascinating seeing former Downing Street head of strategy Paul Ovenden starting to sound like Dominic Cummings. Ovenden's "Stakeholder State" is a clear analogue for Dom's "the blob." pic.twitter.com/ByEx9zRYvN

— Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost (@ghostofchristo1) January 2, 2026

Ovenden scorches Labour’s policies, from “picking the pockets of the productive parts of our economy” to pay for “unsustainable” welfare, to strangling small businesses with red tape.

“We don’t have to fatten the pockets of wind-turbine operators by paying them not to produce energy. We don’t have to import antisemitic Islamists who wish us harm. And we certainly don’t have to treat British citizenship as a scrap of paper,” Ovenden writes., noting “On all this and more, we can simply choose not to.”

This “stakeholder state” revelation no doubt also ties directly into Labour’s dystopian digital ID scheme. Ministers are secretly plotting to assign lifelong digital identities to newborns, linking them to health records under the guise of tackling illegal immigration.

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But as critics like former Tory Cabinet minister Sir David Davis warn, it’s “creeping state surveillance” with no real border control benefits. The same elite network Ovenden describes – NGOs, regulators, and unelected bodies – could weaponize these IDs to track citizens from cradle to grave, enforcing compliance on everything from social media access to job rights.

It’s a perfect storm: import radicals who hate the West, then build a surveillance net to control the natives. This blob thrives on expanding state power, sidelining voter priorities like secure borders and economic freedom.

The el-Fattah fiasco and baby ID plans alone expose Labour’s true face – a government captured by globalist insiders, prioritizing virtue-signaling over sovereignty. Brits must demand accountability before this stakeholder swamp drowns freedom entirely.

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