Labour have denied reports that one of Jeremy Corbyn's top advisers is to leave within days.
Reports of the supposedly imminent departure of the Labour leader's director of strategy and communications, Seamus Milne, emerged online after rumours circulated at the party's annual conference in Liverpool.
But aides moved quickly to rebut the claim, describing reports as "untrue".
Backroom adviser Mr Milne was thrust into the spotlight this week after he intervened to alter the autocue text of shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis's speech, removing a passage which appeared to rule out Mr Corbyn's favoured policy of scrapping the Trident nuclear deterrent.
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Speculation about his future was fuelled when the task of briefing the press ahead of the leader's crucial keynote speech to conference was delegated to a more junior member of staff on Tuesday.
Questions about Mr Milne's long-term commitment to the Corbyn team were first raised when it became known that he is working for Labour while on secondment from his job as a journalist on The Guardian.
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