Hints and tips:
...Labour party members have complained about a heavy-handed leak investigation conducted by Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray, the latest controversy to hit the opposition party....
...Sue knows and likes him,” said one well-placed Labour figure....
...And in the studio with me are my FT colleagues George Parker. Hello, George. George ParkerHi there, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Rafe Uddin. Hi, Rafe. Rafe UddinHi, Lucy....
...Starmer is being advised by Sue Gray, his chief of staff and a former Whitehall mandarin, on policy to improve the efficiency of the civil service ahead of the general election expected next year....
...Miranda is still holding Sue Gray, Pat McFadden and Kemi Badenoch as we head into January....
...“Some of us knew Sue from when we were in government last time,” said one shadow cabinet member....
...Sue Gray refused to co-operate with the official inquiry into the way she resigned as a senior civil servant in order to take a job with opposition Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, ministers said on Tuesday...
...He will work alongside Sue Gray, Starmer’s new chief of staff and a former senior civil servant, in preparing Labour for power....
...But I don’t have a lot to add about that, other than George Parker and Delphine Strauss have written an excellent piece about Rishi Sunak’s election strategy....
...“Sue Gray move to Starmer’s office not surprising,” Nadine Dorries, former culture secretary under Johnson, wrote on Twitter. “The Gray report was a stitch-up of [Johnson].”...
...Parker and Clyde Barrow for something different....
...Pioneer traces its roots to a start-up energy concern, Parker & Parsley, founded in west Texas in the early 1960s....
...Sue Crockford’s film A Woman’s Place records the heady first Women’s Liberation Movement march in 1971....
...In 1995, the Princess of Wales told the BBC that there had been “three of us in the marriage” — a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles, who 10 years later became the Duchess of Cornwall....
...“Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker were among our first neighbours,” he says....
...A subsequent report into the partygate affair by Sue Gray, a senior civil servant, heavily redacted some of its evidence and only published a handful of photographs....
...Matthew Patching, a senior associate at Harcus Parker, said the firm is preparing to sue if claims are not settled before then....
...Unlike eighties rock goddess Bonnie Tyler, I can’t say I’m holding out for a (new) hero....
...“People feel they ended up hanging themselves and that their statements to the police and Sue were being treated as confessions,” said one person close to the disciplinary process....
...Johnson’s fiercest critics admitted that the long-awaited report into the partygate scandal by senior official Sue Gray, although lurid in detail, had failed to inflict a fatal wound on the prime minister...
...The news that Sue Gray was set to join Keir Starmer’s team broke midway through the Conservative party’s away day....
...In 2013, its director-general Sue Biggs turned to John Parker, best known for previously heading the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, and invited him to advise on future directions that the RHS and its...
...Boris Johnson told a packed House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon that the time had come to “move on” after ‘partygate’ now that Sue Gray’s investigation into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street...
...“The Met have concluded their investigation and Sue Gray will publish her report in the coming days, at which point the prime minister will address parliament in full.”...
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