Sue Gray resigns as Keir Starmer's chief of staff after becoming 'distraction'

Sue Gray has resigned from her relation arsenic Downing Street main of unit and volition instrumentality connected a caller Government role, Number 10 has announced

Sue Gray has resigned from her relation arsenic Downing Street main of unit and volition instrumentality connected a caller Government role, Number 10 has announced.

The cardinal fig successful Keir Starmer's ellipse said she was lasting down aft "intense" sum of her successful the quality was becoming a "distraction". In a statement, she said it had "become wide to maine that aggravated commentary astir my presumption risked becoming a distraction to the government's captious enactment of change".

In a written statement, Mr Starmer said: "I privation to convey Sue for each the enactment she has fixed me, some successful absorption and government, and her enactment to hole america for authorities and get america started connected our programme of change. Sue has played a captious relation successful strengthening our relations with the regions and nations. I americium delighted that she volition proceed to enactment that work."

And successful the aforesaid written statement, Ms Gray said: "I americium pleased to person accepted a caller relation arsenic the Prime Minister's envoy for the regions and nations. After starring the Labour party's mentation for authorities and kickstarting enactment connected our programme for change, I americium looking guardant to drafting connected my acquisition to enactment the Prime Minister and the Cabinet to assistance present the government's objectives crossed the nations and regions of the UK. In summation to gathering a adjacent concern with devolved governments, I americium delighted this caller relation volition mean continuing to enactment alongside and enactment the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the Mayors connected English devolution.

"It has been an honour to instrumentality connected the relation of Chief of Staff, and to play my portion successful the transportation of a Labour government. Throughout my vocation my archetypal involvement has ever been nationalist service. However successful caller weeks it has go wide to maine that aggravated commentary astir my presumption risked becoming a distraction to the government's captious enactment of change. It is for that crushed I person chosen to basal aside, and I look guardant to continuing to enactment the Prime Minister successful my caller role."

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