Sue Gray is an anomaly in the Labour Party. Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is universally liked and respected among employees, shadow ministers and the party’s regional mayors and, as a result, the former senior civil servant has succeeded in improving relations between factions that had been at war for years.
Why? Because, as a former civil servant, she is not tarnished by the internal tribalism that has torn Labour apart over the past two decades and prevented it from returning to power for 13 years.
“She talks to everyone, which is pretty rare in the Labour Party,” one senior official said. “And everyone gives her a fair hearing because they don’t have any preconditioned views about her, which again, is pretty rare.”
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