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

Wes Streeting has joked that Sir Keir Starmer’s embattled elder adjutant Sue Gray had “shot JFK” and “no 1 should gain much than the Prime Minister” amid a enactment implicit her salary.

The Health Secretary made airy of suggestions of mounting acrimony astatine the bosom of Government arsenic helium spoke astatine an lawsuit connected the sidelines of the Labour Party league successful Liverpool.

Speaking to a assemblage astatine the gathering hosted by deliberation vessel Labour Together, Mr Streeting: “I privation to invited the BBC’s condemnation that nary 1 should beryllium paid much than the Prime Minister, that nary 1 should person hospitality, and that we should justice show connected societal media mentions.

“Be cautious what we privation for, comrades.”

He added: “It’s going to get worse earlier it gets better. Sue Gray is hiding Lord Lucan and changeable JFK, and I can’t adjacent archer you what she did to Shergar.

“I don’t cognize however we’re going to retrieve from this, frankly.”

In caller weeks, Ms Gray has been the taxable of a bid of anonymous briefings signalling discontent wrong Downing Street conscionable weeks into the caller administration.

Leaks astir her £170,000 wage person contributed to reports of a fractious ambiance wrong Number 10 little than 3 months aft Labour came to power.

The row, alongside a lingering backlash implicit the acceptance of luxury gifts from affluent donors by elder MPs, had threatened to overshadow Labour’s yearly conference.

Sir Keir has insisted helium is “completely successful control” contempt the briefings, portion Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner earlier connected Sunday said she was angered by attempts “to demonise workers successful their workplace done the property and the media”.