He was actually bought down in the end as he didn’t want to fire Pincher. He has a long history of not firing people he considered his allies. He clung onto Cummings for far too long.
Starmer has literally threw everyone under the bus.
The biggest revelation today is that Starmer was trying to get Michael Doyle a top job in the foreign office and specifically briefed the civil service not to tell David Lammy. Another crony he then appointed to the lords and then disowned him when unfortunate friendships with a convicted sex offender was revealed.