Kemi Badenoch warns the 'wheels have well and truly come off' following the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer's controversial chief of staff yesterday.
The furore surrounding Sue Gray shows the Prime Minister's fatal 'lack of principle', Kemi Badenoch says today.
The former women and equalities Tory leadership contender also reveals she clashed with Ms Gray in office - and rejected her attempt to persuade the last Tory administration to give in to Nicola Sturgeon's disastrous bid to introduce gender self-recognition. She spoke out after a dramatic day in Westminster in which Sir Keir showed his ruthless side by ousting his Chief of Staff, just 18 months after he controversially brought her into his party from a long career in Whitehall.
She was even said to have moved the desk of her bitter rival Morgan McSweeney - the successful election campaign chief who has now taken her job - further away from Sir Keir's office. Sue Gray pictured having a very animated conversation with an unknown male from the Cabinet Office in August Then just before 1pm Downing Street confirmed that Ms Gray, thought to have been in Northern Ireland this weekend, had quit as Chief of Staff.
She admitted: 'In recent weeks it has become clear to me that intense commentary around my position risked becoming a distraction to the Government's vital work of change. It is for that reason I have chosen to stand aside, and I look forward to continuing to support the Prime Minister in my new role.'
One told the Financial Times: 'Keir Starmer will always wield the knife when it needs to be done. Now he has.'
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