There’s a moment in most corporate careers where an employee unexpectedly feels a knife in their back. The attack can be small, like a trusted colleague putting down your idea in a meeting. Or the betrayal can grow surreptitiously large, through whispered bitching, misplaced blame, robbed ideas, intentionally miscommunicated deadlines – or just general shafting. And, before you know it, you’re under the fluorescent office lighting looking for an easy escape.
It’s a scenario that rings true for former chief of staff Sue Gray, who in an interview with the Political Currency podcast claimed that, under Keir Starmer’s governance, Downing Street was awash with leaks about her to the media. After conferring with the then-prime minister on the matter, Gray added she was “disappointed” by Starmer’s lack of action over members of staff gathering intel and briefing journalists against her.
