tyb
Sue Gray resigns in the u.k, but not really.
Who is she?
she is the controller of the unions and has huge power in westminster.
A real piece of work.
she has now been given a job called
ENVOY FOR REGIONS AND NATIONS
what that is at the moment, no one knows, but you can bet it has a massive salary and huge benefits.
Failing upwards.
o7
-—-
Major blow to Keir Starmer as Sue Gray quits as his chief of staff
This comes after weeks of speculation around tensions between Ms Gray, outoging cabinet secretary Simon Case and Sir Keir Starmer’s director of political strategy Morgan McSweeney Millie Cooke David Maddox
17 minutes ago
—
Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to accept the resignation of his chief of staff Sue Gray in the latest attempt by the prime minister to regain control of the political agenda.
After less than three months in office since the election, the loss of Ms Gray who he personally recruited to ensure he could drive through his policies through Whithall once in power, is a major blow for Sir Keir.
But it follows weeks of infighting almost from the moment Labour won an historic election result coupled with questions over gifts for the prime minister, Ms Gray and senior cabinet ministers and fears that the government has lost control of its own agenda.
Already, Starmer has been forced to try to rset the agenda three times with announcements over restricting gifts in the future and paying back some of them. Now he is being forced to reset his top team.
Ms Gray will take up a new role in government after admitting that she had become a distraction for the government not least over revelations that she had insisted on a £170,000-salary, more than the prime minister gets..
It is a similar position that Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell found himself in the wake of the Iraq War as well as David Cameron’s director of communications Andrew Coulson during the phone hacking scandal.
The outgoing chief of staff said her decision to step down came as a result of “intense commentary” around her position, admitting it risked becoming a “distraction to the government’s vital work of change”.
“Throughout my career my first interest has always been public service”, Ms Gray added.
For many it had become obvious at a miserable Labour Party conference in Liverpool that Ms Gray’s position was becoming increasingly untenable.
continued