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Sue Gray quits as Starmer resets his top team in bid to regain control over chaos

This comes after weeks of speculation around tensions between Gray, outgoing cabinet secretary Simon Case and Keir Starmer’s director of political strategy Morgan McSweeney

The Independent UK

Sue Gray resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

Former top civil servant says ‘intense commentary around my position risked becoming a distraction’

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff after war for supremacy in government

SUE Gray has resigned as the Prime Minister’s chief of staff after a war between senior factions at the heart of government.

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Starmer pays back £6,000 of gifts in third attempt to close down freebies row

Faced with an inquiry into his leading donor of gifts, Keir Starmer has tried for a third time to shut down the freebies row

The Independent UK

Betrayal of Boris Johnson: Minister wrote secret no confidence letter to oust him while staying in Government

Lord Brady, ex-chairman of the 1922 Committee of Backbench Tory MPs, lifts the lid on how MPs moved against Mr Johnson

Evening Standard

Cabinet secretary contenders: who could be next top UK civil servant?

Ofcom chief executive Melanie Dawes and Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins could be among names in frame for key role

The Guardian - UK

UK’s top civil servant, Simon Case, to stand down on health grounds

Cabinet secretary says he will go at end of year, after turbulent few weeks in Downing Street

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Cabinet ministers call for Jonathan Ashworth role at 10 Downing Street after weeks of infighting

Senior party figures want the former Leicester MP to be given key post after party squanders electoral honeymoon over rivalry and free gifts row

The Guardian - UK

Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray’s struggles reflect how No 10 works – but she must not be story

Advisers to prime ministers are often targets of sniping but being in news is not sustainable for Starmer’s chief of staff

The Guardian - UK

13 observations from the 'hell on earth' that was Labour Conference

From the terrible snack game to who got barred and who was the most Brat, Ethan Croft attempts to sum up the incoherent event that was Labour’s yearly jamboree in Liverpool

Evening Standard

Much to celebrate in Liverpool – but too soon to joke about ‘Dressgate’

Joy and relief among Labour MPs was obvious, but tensions around donations, fuel poverty and Sue Gray’s salary lingered

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer under pressure to ‘get a grip’ on Sue Gray tensions

Exclusive: Some ministers have rallied around chief of staff while others accuse her of ‘control freakery’

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s own goals are truly spectacular

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The Independent UK

Union furious with Labour ministers over briefings against top mandarin Simon Case

Keir Starmer’s government is facing a clash with the civil service union after ministers briefed against Whitehall's top mandarin.

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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer Faces Donation Controversy

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces criticism for accepting gifts, while his chief of staff's salary and past investigations draw attention. Labour Part...

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer promises to revive UK as he dismisses ‘silly’ freebies stories

Keir Starmer will deliver a speech to reboot his government and inject hope, and attempt to move beyond the scandals about gifts, the internal squabbles and the accusations of being doom laden

The Independent UK

Cabinet ministers tell Keir Starmer he must immediately remove top civil servant to regain his authority

Exclusive: Ministers have lost patience with the UK’s top civil servant Simon Case and one accused him of ‘poisoning the well of government’ with off-record briefings

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The Independent UK

Wes Streeting jokes Sue Gray ‘shot JFK’ and ‘no one should earn more than the PM’

The health secretary joked about Sue Gray’s influence amid repeated negative press briefings about Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Will Labour lift the gloom at its first conference in power?

In today’s newsletter: The party have been criticised for being too pessimistic while Keir Starmer has been rocked by a scandal over freebies. Can the party reset their message to the public in Liverpool?

Evening Standard

Rayner acknowledges ‘anger’ over gifts as row threatens to overshadow conference

The Deputy Prime Minister rejected claims of dysfunction within Number 10 centred on chief of staff Sue Gray.

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer's popularity plummets to record low as Labour conference begins

KEIR Starmer’s approval ratings have plummeted to a record low as Labour conference gets underway ...

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner rejects claims she broke rules on donations

Deputy PM denies wrongdoing but says ‘I get that people are angry, I get that people are upset’

The Independent UK

Starmer and Gray took football freebie in latest gifts row

Keir Starmer has opened the Labour conference with a defence of his gift-taking but is facing questions about hospitality at another football match

The Guardian - UK

Give us your vision for the country, Sir Keir. Costly glasses shouldn’t be required

Worried ministers think that so much media prominence is being given to freebie-taking and faction-fighting because the government lacks a positive narrative

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