Sue Gray

[transam]

It worked fore Brexiteers, when did facts ever bother them?

Don't be upset now, what's good for the goose...

Er no that is not accurate

 

[noseall]

Dunno what you are on about noseall

What has Johnson got to do with her going to work for labour ??

Nothing, that's the whole point. Some Tory Boris sycophant on here thinks they are connected, daft old duffer.

 

[Brigadier]

Dunno what you are on about noseall

What has Johnson got to do with her going to work for labour ??

The question is,

What has Sue going to work for Labour got to do with anything?

 

[JonathanM]

Reports today that the restriction will be 6 months, so she can start work in the autumn. That would feel about right to me. Double the normal, but not excessively punitive.

 

[fillyboy]

MSN

Sue Gray - whose report into Partygate contributed to the downfall of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister - breached Whitehall impartiality rules when she took up a leading role with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, an official inquiry has reported.

Had she not resigned to become Mr Starmer's chief of staff in the Labour Party, she could have faced being suspended from her role in the Civil Service, or even fired.

The findings will cause outrage among diehard supporters of Mr Johnson, who last week quit as an MP in the wake of a damning report from the Commons Select Committee of Privileges, which came to the verdict that he deliberately misled parliament about illegal parties held at his Downing Street office during lockdowns during the Covid pandemic.

It will also raise questions about the Leader of the Opposition's judgment, especially when compared to his persistent accusations of sleaze levelled at the Conservative Party. The Cabinet Office inquiry, signed off by the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, found that Ms Gray had fallen short of the standards required by the Civil Service Code and her contract of employment, particularly at a time when she was apparently in talks with Sir Keir about joining Labour as chief of staff.

The revelation will embarrass Ms Gray, a former head of government propriety and ethics, and will pave the way for Conservative MPs to question again whether Mr Starmer's appointment of Ms Gray had undermined the Civil Service's own rules about impartiality.

 

[JonathanM]

Is this a leak?

Of a report which had no legal basis?

I don't think it will displace the party video in the headlines, except perhaps in the Telegraph.

 

[motorbiking]

Naughty Sue.

@JonathanM most of the press are running the story except the guardian.

 

[SirGalahad]

MSN

Sue Gray - whose report into Partygate contributed to the downfall of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister - breached Whitehall impartiality rules when she took up a leading role with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, an official inquiry has reported.

Had she not resigned to become Mr Starmer's chief of staff in the Labour Party, she could have faced being suspended from her role in the Civil Service, or even fired.

The findings will cause outrage among diehard supporters of Mr Johnson, who last week quit as an MP in the wake of a damning report from the Commons Select Committee of Privileges, which came to the verdict that he deliberately misled parliament about illegal parties held at his Downing Street office during lockdowns during the Covid pandemic.

It will also raise questions about the Leader of the Opposition's judgment, especially when compared to his persistent accusations of sleaze levelled at the Conservative Party. The Cabinet Office inquiry, signed off by the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, found that Ms Gray had fallen short of the standards required by the Civil Service Code and her contract of employment, particularly at a time when she was apparently in talks with Sir Keir about joining Labour as chief of staff.

The revelation will embarrass Ms Gray, a former head of government propriety and ethics, and will pave the way for Conservative MPs to question again whether Mr Starmer's appointment of Ms Gray had undermined the Civil Service's own rules about impartiality.

What rule did she break?

 

[noseall]

Naughty Sue.

@JonathanM most of the press are running the story except the guardian.

Even naughtier Boris.

 

[noseall]

Sue Gray - whose report into Partygate

.... was done and dusted before she announced her decision.

Desperate.

 

[noseall]

Naughty Sue.

@JonathanM most of the press are running the story except the guardian.

Most? Let me guess, Express, Wail, Torygraph?

Sky news - zero.

BBC news - zero.

Its a true blue, sucker non-story boyo and you and your fellow Boris horn-smokers fell for it.

Move on.

 

[Odds]

Naughty Sue.

@JonathanM most of the press are running the story except the guardian.

The Guardian prints a story when it is verified to have a kernal of truth.

 

[IT Minion]

This is the one that they just made up rather than ABOCA or whatever it is right? The one written by the person who apparently constructively dismissed her by blocking promotion?

 

[motorbiking]

Blocking a promotion is constructive dismissal? Hilarious.

 

[JohnD]

most of the press are running the story except the guardian.

To be more accurate, most of the pro-Tory lobby and Johnson apologists are trying to suggest that Johnson did not lie to Parliament.

Motorbiking among them.

No surprise there.