Sue Gray + Keir Starmer... What Went Wrong?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the resignation of Sue Gray as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
Why has Gray gone now? What does this tell us about how well Downing Street is working? Who will replace her?
Alex and Chris are joined by the programme director at the Institute of Government Alex Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | So it's Alex in for Adam, and you might remember that last week we ask |
| 0:09.3 | newscasters if they've been named after a politician, or indeed had maybe named their child after a politician. |
| 0:15.6 | And this all came about because we learned during the Conservative Party conference that Robert |
| 0:19.2 | Genrick had given his daughter, the middle name Thatcher. and we did get a few responses to this from newscasters |
| 0:26.5 | including this voice note. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi Adam and the newscast gang absolutely loved the podcast look forward to it every day. My dad, a long-standing |
| 0:37.0 | labour supporter, decided to christen me Harold Bevan. Harold, as in Harold Wilson, former Labour Prime Minister, and Bevan, as of Aniran Bevan, former Labour Health Secretary that established the NHS. |
| 0:55.2 | I've always rather hated my dad for doing this to me, |
| 0:58.6 | given that I'm 27 years old with a name called Harold, |
| 1:02.4 | but I've actually recently developed a bit of an |
| 1:04.5 | appreciation for the Bevan part of the name after I saw the play about the |
| 1:08.7 | man's life that was on at the National Theatre recently. |
| 1:11.8 | Cheers. |
| 1:13.0 | Harold Bevan, Chris, not one but two politicians. |
| 1:16.0 | That is extraordinary story, isn't it? |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you, Harold, for that. |
| 1:19.0 | That is, I mean, that is kind of dedication to a political outlook that really is quite something isn't it? |
| 1:26.2 | I mean not just the first name as say Kia Starmer's parents kind of like Shtante but doing the middle name too, I mean by me. |
| 1:33.6 | Doing the double. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah, double bubble, but with a very old historical twist too. |
| 1:38.8 | That is quite something, yeah. |
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