Senior party insiders suggest Cabinet members and senior party MPs are leading attacks on the former senior civil servant
Cabinet members, ministers and Labour backbenchers are believed to be among those briefing against Ms Gray, who was best known for leading the inquiry into theMs Gray has cut a controversial figure since she was appointed as the Labour leader’s chief of staff, with reports of clashes – denied by No 10 – between her and her former boss, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, and Labour’s head of political strategy Morgan McSweeney.
Another said: “I have literally got my dream team and Sue and everyone else were amazing to work with on it and, in fact, bending over backwards to see if resources matched the scale of work and challenge I have.”And a Whitehall insider said: “Sue knows government like the back of her hand – and not just in No 10 but so many different departments, she knows who the right directors to talk to are, the right committees and so on,” they said. “It’s very hard to compete with that.
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