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Senior civil servant stepped down from role as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff amid tensions in Downing StreetSenior civil servant stepped down from role as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff amid tensions in Downing Street
Sue Gray, the former chief of staff to Keir Starmer, has been given a peerage alongside dozens of other people as the government moves to rebalance the political forces in the House of Lords. Sue Gray, the former chief of staff to Keir Starmer, has been announced as one of 30 new Labour peers as the government moves to rebalance the political forces in the House of Lords.
Gray, the senior civil servant who joined Labour before the general election and was appointed No 10 chief of staff after Starmer became prime minister, was among a swathe of new Labour peers, as well as a smaller number of Conservatives, announced on Friday. The long-awaited announcement saw a string of other Labour grandees made peers, including former ministers Thangam Debbonaire and Kevin Brennan, longtime Tony Blair staffer Anji Hunter and Brendan Barber, the former TUC head.
Gray, whose expected peerage was revealed by the Guardian, stepped down from the chief of staff role in October amid tensions with Starmer’s head political strategist, Morgan McSweeney, who replaced her. There are also six new Conservative peers, including Toby Young, the journalist and free speech advocate, and Thérèse Coffey and Rachel Maclean, ex-ministers who lost their seats at the election. Two Liberal Democrats were made peers, among them Mark Pack, the party’s former president.
Gray, a senior civil servant who joined Labour before the general election, was appointed No 10 chief of staff after Starmer became prime minister.
Gray, whose expected peerage was revealed by the Guardian, stepped down from the role in October amid tensions with Starmer’s head political strategist, Morgan McSweeney, who replaced her.
Downing Street said Gray would take up a post as Starmer’s envoy to the nations and regions, but she turned this down.Downing Street said Gray would take up a post as Starmer’s envoy to the nations and regions, but she turned this down.
More details soon … The list of political peerages, which are separate to other upcoming lists such as Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours, still leaves Labour short of a majority in the 800-plus member Lords, the biggest legislature in the world apart from China’s National People’s Congress.
The new intake moves Labour up to 215 active peers, against 277 Conservatives, although 45 of these are hereditary peers, who are due to be removed from the chamber.