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What went wrong with Starmer’s Gray matter? | David Mitchell

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Sue Gray resigned as the prime minister's chief of staff last week .

She said it was because she “risked becoming a distraction to the government’s vital work of change” The prime minister is allowed to be the story, good or bad.

But anyone else can plead the blameless fact that they’re accidentally distracting everyone from more important things.

Sue Gray was the person most associated with Boris Johnson’s Partygate ignominy to an explicitly partisan Labour role.

She has not succeeded in the role in the way Jonathan Powell did for Tony Blair .

Either Starmer hugely overestimated her ability, or he hugely underestimated the importance of not issuing Boris Johnson with a potential Get-Out-of-Disgrace-Free card.

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