Sue Gray is out: will this solve Labour’s problems?
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, why did Kirstarma get rid of his highest paid aid? Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground. Sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination not a care in the world as you simply |
| 0:37.3 | lean back and before you know it you're. This is how travel should feel and on our trains it does. |
| 0:47.0 | A Vanti West Coast feel good travel. |
| 1:06.1 | It's almost a hundred days since Labour won the election, but as soon as Kirstormer moved into Downing Street, another battle began. |
| 1:11.3 | A battle for his ear, a fight for supremacy among his two closest aides. On the one side, Starma's head of political strategy, Morgan McSweeny, a political |
| 1:18.7 | street fighter who delivered this summer's landslide as Labour's campaign director. |
| 1:23.0 | On the other, Sue Gray, a civil service lifer turned Partygate investigator, |
| 1:29.0 | who is stammer's chief of staff controlled access to the new Prime Minister. |
| 1:35.1 | On Sunday, Gray lost the war and resigned, saying she risked becoming a distraction. |
| 1:41.3 | Breaking news that Sue Gray has resigned as Chief of Staff to Kier Stormer, that is confirmed. |
| 1:50.0 | She has resigned as... |
| 1:51.0 | And with the budget looming, Storm will be hoping his ruthless dispatch of Gray will reset his |
| 1:56.0 | Premiership after a summer of negative headlines. From the Guardian I'm Helen Pitt today in focus. Sue Gray is out, but will it solve Labour's problems? |
| 2:13.0 | Jessica Elgut, you are the deputy political editor at The Guardian, |
| 2:21.0 | and back in June before the general election you told us about Kiea Starmer's |
| 2:25.0 | two most important advisors, Morgan McSweeny and Sue Gray. |
| 2:29.5 | And I remember at the time you suggested that these were two people who were not necessarily |
| 2:34.1 | used to sharing power and now it seems you were right and we're seeing the result of |
| 2:39.3 | that what happened this weekend? |
| 2:41.3 | So over the course of the weekend, there were stronger and stronger rumors that |
| 2:46.0 | Sue Gray was on her way out. |
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