A political operation existed in permanent tension with a technocratic one. Gray was once heard to remark that she disliked ...

Morgan McSweeney is a “hard taskmaster” who will not be afraid to sack underperforming No 10 staff, Lord Mandelson has said ...

After three troubled months in office, Labour’s problem has become obvious: it lacks an overarching purpose, as we have said ...

Keir Starmer has wielded the axe, sacking chief of staff Sue Gray and replacing her with his former head of political ...

With total predictability Rishi Sunak tried a few plodding Sue Gray jokes at the October 9th return of PMQs that failed to ...

Briefing about Gray's whopping salary - bigger than the Prime Minister's - suggests the knives were already out for her. To ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have faced off at PMQs. The latter only has a few more weeks to land blows on the prime ...

Meanwhile, Tory MPs prepare to cast their votes after Robert Jenrick warned about a potential “horse-trading” as the final ...

Mr Sunak missed a trick by inviting an obvious attack on the Conservatives’ economic record. He only referred in passing to ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have faced off at PMQs. The latter only has a few more weeks to land blows on the prime ...

If Sue Gray divided opinion inside and outside Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet – and she certainly did – then his chosen ...