Sue Gray, the senior civil servant handed responsibility for untangling a string of Downing Street parties that allegedly broke lockdown rules, has been placed in an “impossible position, with an impossible task,” Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said.
Ms Gray, the second permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, was given the job of leading the inquiry into the scandal after cabinet secretary Simon Case recused himself when it emerged that a party had also been held within his own department.
