Keir Starmer's chief of staff is not in Liverpool, but the briefing war rumbles on
Sue Gray was a divisive figure even before she was appointed, given her background as a senior civil servant who ran the Government’s internal ethics watchdog For veterans of Labour party conferences, the main feeling at this year’s gathering is relief that 14 years of fruitless opposition are finally over and they can host a conference where what they say really matters again.
Many insiders – MPs, advisers and ordinary party members – are in a state of disbelief at what they see as a string of self-inflicted errors.for most pensioners may have been a deliberate attempt to pick a fight, but a string of embarrassing revelations about“The atmosphere is not positive,” a source said. “People are asking how things can have gone wrong so quickly.
During the election campaign, the Labour leader also faced repeated questions over why he had personally registered more hospitality donations than any other MP – defending himself by saying that going to Arsenal away games as a corporate guest was the only way he could attend safely. The Government has been in power for just 80 days, but some of its backers are already talking about the need for a new approach in light of the ongoing troubles afflicting ministers.
He is hoping to use this conference to change the mood music, setting out a more optimistic vision for the future and emphasising – not least to disaffected Labour members – that the short-term pain is in service of sunnier goals in the long term.
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