As you may be aware,UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was forced to sack his chief of staff Sue Gray following multiple missteps, including her and the PM taking gifts of high fashion clothing worth thousands of pounds.
The final straw was when someone at 10 Downings Street leaked the fact that she was paid more than he was. (Link for the quote in the title here)
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, who masterminded Starmer’s succession from Jeremy Corbyn, and with whom she is said to have found herself at odds in government.
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Gray would take on a new government role as the prime minister’s envoy for the regions and nations, No 10 announced, as Starmer shook up his entire top-team after facing intense pressure to put an end to the hostile briefings that had at times overshadowed his first 100 days.
Envoy for the regions and nations means sacked.
This is what happens when you have a government with no moral center. Everything becomes palace intrigue, which does not work. (Though it does make for amusing episodes of Yes, Minister and The Thick of It)
This is the logical extension of Blairism.
When you believe in nothing, all that is left is the quest for power, and unlike the contemptible Tony Blair, Keir Starmer cannot fake sincerity as well.
It's why his popularity has fallen 45% in only a few weeks.
Well, that and leaving senior citizens to freeze in the winter.
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