Good morning. Once again, Westminster has been waiting for the Sue Gray report. But whereas last time Gray was the senior official reaching her view of Downing Street lockdown parties, this time she is not the author, but the subject, under scrutiny for leaving her civil service job to join Labour as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
Yesterday, after a day of just the sort of hanging about that became synonymous with her name last year, and a torrent of briefing that she had been found to have broken the civil service code, a ministerial statement finally arrived shortly before 6pm. And, after all that, it had almost nothing to say.
