Sue Grey has resigned

FriedGreenTomatoes2

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.

I believe she's moved on to a dual role. Does that mean two salaries? Nothing would surprise me, frankly.

Kier's nowhere near resigning. They have not been wishy-washy in the months since the election, thus there are going to be ruffled feathers & a few flouncings. But look at that majority, the 5 years he has & his desire to do what's effective rather than what plays well with SM. More power to his elbow. & controversial tho it is on this site, the WFP being means-tested is not going to cause shock- horror among young people with expensively earned skills & no job market for them, or with single mums struggling to feed their families, or key-workers who can't afford the rent within a 30 mile radius of their job.They know that overall the over-60's are the richest sector of society, & that the triple lock remains.

I think the 'distraction' line they are putting out is cover for worsening relationships in No. 10. Hopefully, Starmer has now sorted it and can get on with real work.

Well I haven’t been at all distracted by the Sue Gray salary store as it didn’t seem that important. I believe some new people have been hired to improve communications which is desperately needed. I am most disturbed by events overseas. Lammy isn’t shaping up too well as foreign secretary imo.

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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.

Oh for goodness sake, decent debate, or argument, but please stop with the nonsensical comments saying that the Labour government is deliberately killing off pensioners. I disagree with the withdrawal of WFP for some pensioners by the way. Changes to inheritance tax are rumour and conjecture.

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What a rise to the top this Gray woman has had. She didn't go to university, joined the Civil Service straight from school and then took a decade off to run a pub in Newry, Co Down.

Soon she’ll end up in the House of Lords with a platinum pension most of us can only dream of.

valdavi

Kier's nowhere near resigning. They have not been wishy-washy in the months since the election, thus there are going to be ruffled feathers & a few flouncings. But look at that majority, the 5 years he has & his desire to do what's effective rather than what plays well with SM. More power to his elbow. & controversial tho it is on this site, the WFP being means-tested is not going to cause shock- horror among young people with expensively earned skills & no job market for them, or with single mums struggling to feed their families, or key-workers who can't afford the rent within a 30 mile radius of their job.They know that overall the over-60's are the richest sector of society, & that the triple lock remains.

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FriedGreenTomatoes2

What a rise to the top this Gray woman has had. She didn't go to university, joined the Civil Service straight from school and then took a decade off to run a pub in Newry, Co Down.

Soon she’ll end up in the House of Lords with a platinum pension most of us can only dream of.

So she worked hard, didn't get a hand up, didn't go to the "right schools"? Sounds good to me.

And to me HiusePlantQueen

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Anniebach

And to me HiusePlantQueen

And me!

From what I heard, it took some persuasion for Sue Gray to agree to resign.

As a career civil servant of decades, she really should have remained impartial and should never have so quickly and eagerly joined the ranks of the Labour Party after their election.
As a civil servant her partiality and bias should have been a matter of investigation a long time ago.

She was a former civil servant, worked for Starmer 2023 to 2024 ?

Anniebach

She was a former civil servant, worked for Starmer 2023 to 2024 ?

Sorry, yes, she joined Starmer in September 2023 and the Labour Party November 2023.

Anniebach

And to me HiusePlantQueen

And me. “This Gray woman” came from a working class background and had to drop her plans to go to university when her father died suddenly. What justification is there for holding that against her?

Wow! That was a shock! Every day’s a surprise in politics. I wonder why?

Why? I just think some people/news outlets love to present any event as "shock horror gosh surprise" when it's just news of a change in role/re-shuffle. Diminishes the breadth of actual news.

Hope things improve now for Chairman Keir. Perhaps he will get better advice. The UK needs stability with the way things are in the world.

My goodness the speculation and rubbish on these postings appears to be less than considered views but rather dependent on the Mail, The Telegraph and that right wing GB News.
The budget hasn’t been delivered yet so why not actually give this government a chance before deciding this is an evil group of people set on the killing of old age pensioners. The other day there was a headline somewhere about the possible back tracking of the WFA and immediately up comes remarks like that means millionaires will be getting it. I give up. I would like the three hundred pounds towards my energy bills but I also want the doctors back to work and the trains to run when I have an important hospital appointment ; or having booked something I will be able to actually get to my destination.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

What a rise to the top this Gray woman has had. She didn't go to university, joined the Civil Service straight from school and then took a decade off to run a pub in Newry, Co Down.

Soon she’ll end up in the House of Lords with a platinum pension most of us can only dream of.

So what, she did not go to University, she ran a pub, goes to show she has a good work ethic.

The thing is it is not so much the government but the greed and hypocrisy of their leader. He is not believable or acceptable anymore. Is the Times considered a right wing newspaper,too ? I guess anything that doesn’t wholeheartedly support your leader is now classified as ‘ far right’. That’s what communist governments do, too.