Labour staff have filed a complaint against Sue Gray’s handling of a leak inquiry, in an escalation of hostilities between party officials and Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
Party officials say they were denied due process, had their phones inspected and had their workplace rights violated during the course of an internal investigation led by Gray last week.
The investigation centred on a story that had appeared in The Guardian and correctly predicted a U-turn on Labour’s £28 billion green investment pledge.
Gray is said to have inspected the phones of staff and spoken to several during interviews without trade union representation present. She was also in the parliamentary meeting from which details were leaked, prompting allegations of a conflict of interest and
