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Re: Sue Gray
From that left-wing Starmer-supporting tree-hugging woke publication, the Daily Express…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...chief-of-staff
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Forget the Boris conspiracy! The real inside story of how Starmer won over Sue Gray
According to well-placed sources, the tale began with Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle on February 7 when, among other moves, he promoted Kemi Badenoch by increasing her international trade portfolio to include business.
Ms Badenoch is understood to have immediately asked for Ms Gray to be her department’s top civil servant – the Permanent Secretary – having worked with her before in the levelling up and communities department.
A Tory MP in the know explained: “Michael Gove, who rates Sue very highly, had brought her to the levelling up department and Kemi had been impressed.
“When Kemi got a new department, Michael encouraged her to ask for Sue as her permanent secretary and she was only too keen to do so.”
But it appears that the most senior civil servant in the Government Cabinet Secretary Simon Case had other plans.
According to sources he is alleged to have got involved in the recruitment process and vetoed Ms Gray’s candidacy on a technicality because she was “not of the right grade to be promoted to permanent secretary".
The impact of this was devastating.
One source noted: “It in effect put an end to her career chances because it meant she would never be promoted to a permanent secretary job and never have a chance to become Cabinet Secretary. A lot of ministers wanted her to land the top job one day.”
It is understood she was “upset and frustrated” and soon after Starmer approached her.
A source said: “Everybody knew what had happened and Starmer must have got to hear about it too so he swooped. It’s actually a masterstroke by him.”
A Conservative former minister was furious with Sunak.
"The Prime Minister should have intervened and overruled Case. This is a terrible blunder on his part and none of it would have happened if Kemi had been allowed to have her way."
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