'Sue Gray deserves peerage', says minister as dozens of new Lords announced

Sue Gray resigned from her position as Downing Street chief of staff in October - (PA Wire)

A Minister has defended Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray getting a peerage as dozens of new lords were announced on Friday.

The senior civil servant, whose partygate report helped lead to the downfall of Boris Johnson’s government, has given “decades” to the civil service, Energy Consumers Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh said.