🔴 Probe into Sue Gray’s Labour job paused after she ‘chose not to’ cooperate

Sue Gray is facing a government probe over whether she held talks with the Labour Party while investigating lockdown-breaking parties under Boris Johnson’s government

#UK #News #Politics #SueGray #LabourParty #PartyGate

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/who-is-sue-gray-career-civil-servant-downing-street-partygate-report-3499761

Bold move. #Labour #SueGray #SueGrayInquiry https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65461223

Given that the #Tories have seldom been backwards at leaking reports in advance or making early (but faulty) accusations, one cannot help but think the reason that #OliverDowden is refusing to say whether he thinks that #SueGray broke #civilservice guidelines in taking a job with #KierStarmer is because they've actually found no evidence at all & are preparing to back-track on earlier accusations...

Of course, there may be other explanations, but reticence is not a standard #Tory trait.

I’m assuming the Tories are saying Sue Gray broke the rules because they think everyone is like them.#SueGray #JohnsonPartiedWhilePeopleDied #Tories

It’s very revealing that many Tories find it difficult to understand how someone could do a job with honour and integrity in a way that doesn’t directly serve their personal interests. They are suspicious of others because they cannot see past their own self-interest, and assume everyone else is the same. #SueGray #ToryCorruption

Boris Johnson makes last-ditch bid to discredit Partygate inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/18/boris-johnson-makes-last-ditch-bid-to-discredit-partygate-probe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I am totally f’d off that #labour #starmer couldnt wait a few weeks before offering #suegray the job. FFS talk about gifting #fascist #johnson and his cronies the opportunity to sow seeds of doubt at such a key time. Really annoying.

#SueGray’s departure from the #CivilService to work for #KeirStarmer has raised concerns about impartiality – but it is also a sign of her faith in Starmer’s leadership.

https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/03/14/sue-gray-quitting-to-work-for-keir-starmer-does-cause-problems-for-the-civil-service-its-also-a-sign-she-thinks-hes-heading-for-government/

We must imagine #SueGray happy. 😊

Starmer is going to get absolutely pummelled on Gray and immigration today.

I hope he has some decent questions and comebacks. That or a concrete helmet.

#GTTO #PMQs #UKPolitics #Starmer #SueGray

Conservative MPs are having a field day in the Commons right now.

Starmer better hope this doesn't cut through to the public. He already fumbled on LBC earlier.

It's all so damn unnecessary.

#Starmer #Labour #SueGray #GTTO #UKPolitics

Interesting back-story to the #suegray move to work for #keirstarmer - a #countryandwestern husband - landlady of a #newry pub - read more here: 👉 https://www.climateblog.uk/index.html#SueGrayBackStory

“#Partygate was not an invention of #SueGray. She and Sir Keir didn’t sneak into Number 10 to plant fridges full of booze. They didn’t issue the party invites, serve the drinks, hand round the nibbles or take the incriminating photographs. There was no ‘cabal’, no ‘coup’ and no ‘conspiracy’. The only plot was orchestrated in Number 10 to try to cover up Partygate. There was one person responsible for the downfall of #BorisJohnson and that person stares him in the face whenever he looks in a mirror.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/05/boris-johnson-peddling-new-lies-desperate-attempt-save-skin

#AndrewRawnsley on #BorisJohnson “slummy premiership” #partygate and #SueGray https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/05/boris-johnson-peddling-new-lies-desperate-attempt-save-skin

Sue Gray and the uncivil service? Former civil servant Neil Schofield-Hughes reflects on why Sue Gray's appointment as Keir Starmer's chief of staff is a problem

#Bylines #SueGray
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/sue-gray-and-the-uncivil-service/

Amusingly, the Conservative Party is caught between two diametrically-opposed forces of #SueGray being both a civil servant of great integrity AND a Labour Party stooge with a hidden political agenda.

They do not know what to do for the best.

😂

“A Tory MP chairing a different Commons committee said: “It is obvious Boris is just trying to find a way out of all this. Any fool can see that”.”

Even as a confirmed non-fan of Starmer, to say the least, this utter horseshit is indeed waaaay too obvious not to be able to see straight through.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/hes-gone-full-trump-tories-turn-on-boris-johnson-over-partygate

#mastodon #fediverse #BorisJohnson #Starmer #suegray #uk #ukpolitics #politics #media

Now some #tories want to investigate #SueGray! ffs! Thx to #Maximilien for this. They are now showing their true colours & how desperate the Tory party have become! #PartyGate
https://bit.ly/3KVwtFO

On 12 January 2022, Mr
Johnson said in the HofC in relation to the gathering of 20 May 2020: “All I ask is that
Sue Gray be allowed to complete her inquiry into that day and several others, so that
the full facts can be established”

Now he says other things about her.

#SueGray

The #SueGray report was authored by Sue Gray

The Privileges Commitee Report was not authored by Sue Gray

It is the latter that indicates #BorisJohnson misled Parliament

Why have we got a #sillyseason all of a sudden? - #borisjohnson won't go away, #matthancock feels 'betrayed' over crass #whatsapp comments, #suegray is now a #leftie , the #royals are in uproar over their houses - read more here: 👉 https://www.climateblog.uk/index.html#SillySaturday04032023