THE Prime Minister was hit with a fresh resignation yesterday as his No 10 director of strategy Paul Ovenden quit over making sexually explicit comments about left MP Diane Abbott.

Mr Ovenden reportedly exchanged emails with a former colleague in 2017 in which he retold a story about a game of “shag, marry, kill” he had overheard involving Ms Abbott, the longest-serving female MP in the Commons.

He then graphically recounted the conversation in which two women described performing sex acts on the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, according to the Daily Mail.

Mr Ovenden, a Labour Party press officer at the time, resigned to avoid becoming “a distraction.”

Downing Street said that Mr Ovenden’s messages were “appalling and unacceptable.”

“As the first black woman to be elected to Parliament, Diane Abbott is a trailblazer who has faced horrendous abuse throughout her political career.

“These kinds of comments have no place in our politics.”

No 10 withdrew the whip from Ms Abbott in July following in interview in which she distinguished between different types of racism.

A spokesman for Momentum said: “Diane Abbott has been bullied and demonised her whole career. These latest revelations are appalling.

“The Labour leadership is complicit unless it offers a heartfelt apology and restores the whip to Britain’s first black woman MP.”

Co-chairwoman Sasha das Gupta added: “The culture in No 10 is clearly laddish, misogynistic and amateurish. This should be laid down at the door of the chief of staff, and ultimately, the Prime Minister.”

His resignation is another setback for the Prime Minister, who has also lost his deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, and his ambassador to Washington DC, Peter Mandelson, to separate scandals in the last two weeks.

Yesterday, Sir Keir said that he would never have appointed Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US if he had known the full extent of his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The PM sacked the so-called Prince of Darkness last week, but has faced questions about his judgment in appointing the peer in the first place, whose friendship with Epstein was public knowledge.

Sir Keir gave public backing to Lord Mandelson at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, only to sack him the following day after the publication of email exchanges with Epstein.

The Prime Minister told broadcasters that Lord Mandelson went through a proper due diligence process before his appointment.