When Labour got into trouble soon after the election, Sue Gray was the scapegoat. Some of the failure to prepare for government may have been her fault, and her replacement, by Morgan McSweeney, as the prime minister’s chief of staff certainly ensured a clearer political message from No 10.
But it didn’t take long for the caravan of blame to circle round and roll over her successor. This week, some Labour MPs privately blamed McSweeney for handling disability benefits reform so badly that more than 100 of them were preparing to vote against their government.
