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Sue Grey has resigned

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Jaxjacky Sun 06-Oct-24 13:51:46

Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted to "thank Sue for all the support she has given me", while in a statement Ms Gray said it had "become clear" in recent weeks that "intense commentary around my position risked becoming a distraction to the government's vital work of change".

Spinnaker Sun 06-Oct-24 14:01:40

Hopefully she's the first card to fall in the house of cards, its starting 🤞

GrannyGravy13 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:09:28

👏👏👏

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:13:20

Well she’s been ‘moved across’ to another post.
Same salary?
She’s to coordinate the ‘whole of the UK’. Bet she still has the ear of Keir Starmer.
They must think were easily fooled.

TwiceAsNice Sun 06-Oct-24 14:13:35

Thank goodness she’s a menace and appears to have much too much power in ANY government

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:17:13

“The adults are back in the room"
“For the first time in many of our lives, actually Britain looks like a little haven of peace and stability”

Comedy gold.

Visgir1 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:23:27

There is more to this than meets the eye?

pascal30 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:36:11

KS is a master of deflection

GrannyGravy13 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:37:26

pascal30

KS is a master of deflection

Good to hear he is a master of something

sazz1 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:43:41

Kier Starmer should resign and I think he will sooner or later. Labour has dropped so far down the ratings with his crazy policies. Stopping the WFP to kill off many pensioners then proposing to up the inheritance tax is a win win policy for him. Not paying pension for old people dying of hypothermia. I can see through this move. He's a wicked person.

Ladyleftfieldlover Sun 06-Oct-24 14:56:01

This is all very Daily Mail ish!

LadyGracie Sun 06-Oct-24 15:04:46

No it's all fact.

Nonnato2 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:06:18

Oh give over!🤣🤣

Nonnato2 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:07:26

Comment to ladyfield⬆️

Wyllow3 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:12:37

Ladyleftfieldlover

This is all very Daily Mail ish!

So it is Ladyleftfieldlover, without references or detail.

The Guardian has the details of what amounts to a re-shuffle of personnel which includes Sue Grey as the most well known.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/06/sue-gray-resigns-as-keir-starmer-chief-of-staff-downing-street

Jane43 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:16:07

sazz1

Kier Starmer should resign and I think he will sooner or later. Labour has dropped so far down the ratings with his crazy policies. Stopping the WFP to kill off many pensioners then proposing to up the inheritance tax is a win win policy for him. Not paying pension for old people dying of hypothermia. I can see through this move. He's a wicked person.

Don’t you think you are being rather dramatic? ‘Killing pensioners off’. Four to six pounds a week is a tiny fraction of fuel bills which rose without any kind of control by the last government. You don’t know what is happening with inheritance tax until the budget at the end of the month and only around 4% of estates are affected by it anyway.

‘Not paying pension of old people dying of hypothermia’, more hyperbole, the WFA was never part of the state pension. Perhaps you should stop watching GB News, reading the Daily Mail and logging on to X - 70% of which is misinformation.

Oreo Sun 06-Oct-24 15:20:43

Jane43
FYI
The Labour Party looked into how taking away the WFA from all pensioners other than those on benefits when they were a shadow cabinet, in case the Tories decided to cut it.The findings were that something like up to four thousand pensioners could die.

Oreo Sun 06-Oct-24 15:22:12

Surprised to see SG resign from her newly acquired post.
Soon to be settled into another top job I bet tho.

Wyllow3 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:24:47

Its in the Guardian report I referenced for details of her new post in the re-shuffle.

Galaxy Sun 06-Oct-24 15:26:43

It's the first headline on the BBC. Sue Grey quits as Starmers chief of staff.

Oreo Sun 06-Oct-24 15:29:15

Thanks Wyllow3 I’d not noticed your link.
So Morgan McSweeney has come out on top🤔

Wyllow3 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:32:37

Yes, and the BBC article gives full details of the whole re-shuffle as the Guardian did.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdenx2p32jxo

A good move.

Wyllow3 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:36:53

Oreo

Thanks Wyllow3 I’d not noticed your link.
So Morgan McSweeney has come out on top🤔

Well, inevitably the more right media are presenting it as a battle, the rest as a re-organisation. I don't know much about Morgan McSweeney tbh, it's a wait and see.

Jane43 Sun 06-Oct-24 15:45:07

Oreo

Jane43
FYI
The Labour Party looked into how taking away the WFA from all pensioners other than those on benefits when they were a shadow cabinet, in case the Tories decided to cut it.The findings were that something like up to four thousand pensioners could die.

I know about that, it was seven years ago and the operative word is ‘could’. Since then pensioners have received rises of 28.5%, 80% of whom own their own homes outright. As I said the blame lies with the last government who allowed the energy companies to make obscene profits not with the loss of the cost of a cup of coffee, a pint of lager or a glass of wine a week.

The government took steps to stop wealthier pensioners including 2.7 million people whose income is more than £50,270 pa from receiving unnecessary handouts, the threshold is too low but hopefully it will be amended when possible.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 06-Oct-24 16:56:01

We ought to at least get her name right.
It’s Gray.

Labour seem to be ripping themselves apart from the inside out. There must be some meaty stories about to drop this week in my opinion.