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Coffee House Shots

Could Sue Gray-gate backfire on Keir Starmer?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Cabinet Office has published its written statement into the resignation of Sue Gray, stating that it has given a 'confidential assessment' to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) about whether she broke civil service rules in taking up a job from Keir Starmer while still a senior civil servant. On the episode, Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and the UK In A Changing Europe's Jill Rutter, who is also a former civil servant, about the implications for the civil service if Gray is found to have broken the rules.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:18.4

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

0:20.0

Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:22.4

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Jill Rutter from the Think Tank UK in a changing Europe.

0:27.6

Now Katie, all of us means that today has been waiting for Sue Gray, another Sue Gray report,

0:32.9

which has just come out in the last few minutes. Tell us, what does it say?

0:37.9

Yes, as ever we have been waiting for Sue Gray. Now, ultimately the upshot of this

0:44.1

written ministerial statement is that Sue Gray is not cooperating, as fully as the government

0:49.6

would expect, when given the opportunity to make representations a part of the process,

0:54.4

the saying she is chosen not to do so. And what they're trying to do there is ultimately

0:59.3

looking to the circumstances leading to her resignation, which was sparked when it was reported

1:04.6

that she was, she had been appointed as being offered at least the job of Kirstaam as Chief

1:10.0

of Staff. Now that was a leak to the media, which I think they've was slightly caught on the hoof.

1:14.0

So you had her resigning quickly, you've had Kirstaam refusing in various interviews

1:18.8

to get into any details on timing. So when he first spoke to Sue Gray,

1:22.5

the Tories are alleging if you look at various reports, which this statement is not going into,

1:27.3

that there is a conflict here, because she was in the role related to the party gate report

1:31.7

in propriety and ethics around the time she was also speaking to Labour. Now, there's two

1:36.3

investigations. This is a ministerial statement on the Cabinet Office investigation.

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