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Scapegoat Sue Gray’s exit leaves Starmer’s No 10 with nowhere left to hide

Scapegoat Sue Gray’s exit leaves Starmer’s No 10 with nowhere left to hide



Downing Street reset means PM and his team only have themselves to blame if they fail to communicate purpose and visionUK politics live – latest updatesOffice politics can be complicated. And Westminster can get obsessed with personalities behind the scenes and where someone sits on the office floor plan. But with all that being said, it is true to say that relations between Sue Gray, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff and some others in the early days of Keir Starmer’s government were if anything worse than reported.She is not the first outsider who found it impossible to gel with Starmer’s close-knit and fiercely political team who ran his leadership campaign and who worked on Labour’s election strategy. His former chief of staff Sam White departed after just over a year. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/08/sue-gray-exit-keir-starmer-downing-street-analysis

Author : Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Publish date : 2024-10-08 13:21:42

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