Politics latest: Sue Gray has resigned as chief of staff, sources have told Sky News

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1. absolutely what someone who knows they are in the right will do

2. Did she outlast a lettuce?

3. Why does this already feel like the end days of a three term government after only four months?

4. Huh. Was she picked to take the fall then? Of all the scandals, hers was the nothingburger that stood out.

   Its gonna do nothing for Labour. Just take out Starmer tbh. The Labour Together guys only installed him to purge Corbynites in the first place. Its not like he has anything going for him. No charisma, no political savvyness. Forget that, not even basic political sense.

   Do the centrists still not have an actual viable politician ready to actually lead yet? How long are they gonna stick with the temp hire?

5. It’s because Morgan McSweeney and his followers are basically briefing against her constantly.

   That guy is a dangerous character for British politics imo.

6. That Sue that ran the pub in bandit country in Ulster?

7. >Sir Keir Starmer’s chief adviser and former Labour general election campaign director Morgan McSweeney will replace Sue Gray as the prime minister’s top adviser.

   So the top brass of the government will be _even_ more inward looking, completely driven by Labour Together’s mantra.

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9. The media has got used to feeding off political chaos and don’t intend to give up feeding into it as much as they can. They’ve been deposing PMs regularly and they’ll be having a run at Kier. I doubt they actually care about who is PM, they’re just addicted to the power.

10. To take up a new role as the PM’s envoy for nations and regions, important info missing from the headline.

11. Held my nose about this but labour are really fucking this up. Really disappointed

12. >She has been appointed as the prime minister’s new envoy for regions and nations.

    The (always deluded) idea that the civil service were impartial during the previous government is surely in tatters for good.

13. Its funny that this Labour government already looks to be in utter chaos 4 months in.

14. This feels like Starmer is reshuffling to turn the optics around with all this pay and freebie row? I have no clue how Labour are shitting the bed after four months! Pull yourselves together!

15. More like pushed out. Nature of politics and I bet her severance was generous

16. Feels like the new media got a taste for power after all the Tory cycling, and now they’re desperate not to let go until the next GE so we get this weird frenzy of attack articles and faux-outrage being fed to the readers.

17. Certainly feels like the media at large just want constant political uncertainty.

    The hit pieces have been constant since Labour took office.

    Just feeds the far-right’s agenda to be seen as the layman’s choice to bring stability.

    Dangerous. Very, very dangerous.

18. “Change” as in the country is being run by a small kliq of right wing “lads”

19. What’s that, a government that did everything in it’s power to avoid criticism turns out to be a weak government.

    Weird that.

    Addendum; for the downvoter rushing to defend the Starmer government – you’re making the problem worse.

20. Probably for the best with all that was coming out.

21. No confidence vote by Jan at this rate, just needs Reeves’ budget to be poorly received, someone buy a lettuce and start the timer.

22. Political and societal system in this country is so broken beyond repair. Not willing to make the hard decisions. Always cowardly.

23. I don’t understand why it was so controversial that she gelot paid more than pm. I’m sure he meets people every week paid more than him.

    I do understand, and share the anger regarding gifts and feel this resignation is to distract.

24. Didn’t Sue Gray interview Mr Keir Starmer before commencing – to determine whether or not he was remotely qualified to run a proverbial in a brewery?

25. I might as well say this now, Sue Gray has pulled out.

26. This government has hit the rocks very quickly.

    Is it the media intense, corporate billionaire lobbying or is it a Labour party that wasn’t really prepared for government and a Chancellor and PM that really are only in it for themselves and the Blairites.

    I give Angela Rayner 6 months before she quits and the Labour party splits down the middle.

27. The people in here complaining about this are the same people that were complaining when she was appointed.

28. Another piece of poor judgement by Kier. I don’t understand how she can be allowed near government at all. She broke the Civil code. There needs to be a change where civil servants should never be allowed to join governments, otherwise they’re incentivised to do favours to help the careers of ministers or effectively spy for the opposition.

29. Most Hollywood marriages have lasted longer than the affair between Sir Keir and Sue

30. Somehow this just gives credibility to all the accusations. Labour looking very bad lately.

31. >Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff after finding herself at the centre of a political storm since Labour came into power.

    >Gray will be replaced by Morgan McSweeney, the party’s election guru who masterminded Starmer’s succession from Jeremy Corbyn, with whom she is said to have found herself at odds in government.

    Ahh, the person who masterminded the undermining and sabotage of Corbyn with the Labour NEC now placed up on high. The coup fully complete.

32. Starmer is a really idiot for even appointing her in the first place.

33. Wait, why did she resign?

    Surely she was a good person for this job no? Like really well qualified?

    So what’s the issue?

34. Labour have done some really good stuff already.

    But my god, they keep dropping the ball on the optics. Starmers gift, this….

    I swear just pay any normal person to sit on their staff and sense check the decisions being made.

35. Sideways promotion into a different job. I bet it pays more too.

36. Very glad to be supporting Lib dems at the moment.

    They sure as shit aren’t the best, but they look a hell of a lot more organised than Red and Blue these days

37. Good riddance. She bias. If she had this unimpeachable reputation as her BS investigation into Boris was supposed to be she never would have took the job.

38. What an absolute disaster this lot have been since they took over. I thought the Tories were bad.

39. I had a short chat with a high ranking politician last week, he said there is more bad news to come for Kier. Would not specify exactly what. I don’t think Sue is the last of his challenges.

40. So two Liz Truss’s make a Sue Gray, one-and-a-half Sue Gray’s make a Vaughn Gething, three Vaughan Gething’s make a Humza Yousaf, but how many Humza Yousaf’s make a barleycorn?

41. Is this new envoy role still going to get a SpAd salary?

42. Imagine looking almost as crap as the previous government…and doing it after only 3 months…pretty impressive Keir….

43. Good. She’s an idiot. As is starmer. Anything that brings about a premature downfall of him the better for me

44. Entirely preventable, shambolic PR disasterclass. This story was dead. The internal fighting and hostile briefings were pathetic and Starmer and Grey should have rooted it out and destroyed it, they couldn’t govern with this childish culture of squabbling which was going on. Instead they’ve capitulated to it, for some reason, undoubtedly embolding it and just further implying a culture of incompetence – all the while advertising to the public that the government is squabbling, still