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Sue Gray’s son to run for winnable Labour seat

Liam Conlon, son of Keir Starmer’s new chief of staff, is standing for the party in Beckenham and Penge in south London

The Guardian - UK

Labour leadership meets councillors after resignations over Middle East crisis

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Sue Gray, and David Lammy respond after councillors quit party

The Guardian - UK

Buoyant Labour is beginning to tingle with anticipation at the prospect of taking power

Sir Keir Starmer’s team hasn’t entirely banished fear of failure, but the party conference was mainly characterised by rising hope

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer and Sue Gray met Labour mayors to clear the air, say sources

Exclusive: Relations said to be improving with Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham, who praised Gray’s input

The Guardian - UK

Labour sink ‘Keir Royale’ cocktails as conference begins

Sue Gray also made a party appearance on the first night

Evening Standard

Starmer acts to protect women who blow whistle on sex-pest bosses

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s former wife Marina Wheeler is to be Labour’s ‘whistleblower tsar’

The Independent UK

Who’s who in Keir Starmer’s reshaped top team?

A look at the key people advising, influencing and masterminding the Labour leader’s bid to become PM

The Guardian - UK

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Partygate review: The hypocrisy and amorality of the Downing Street gang is laid bare in painful fashion

Channel 4’s brilliant, enraging drama brings the findings of the Sue Gray report to the screen

The Independent UK

Partygate review – a giant, exploding grenade of a TV show

Every snog-filled, debauched Covid-era party in Number 10 is shockingly depicted in Channel 4’s jaw-dropping docudrama. It’s a vital document of national shame

The Guardian - UK

Partygate on Channel 4: what’s real and what isn’t?

Drug-fuelled benders, karaoke sets and whistleblowers: we separate fact from fiction

Evening Standard

‘Boris will be watching. He’s a narcissist’ - inside Channel 4’s upcoming Partygate drama

From the sick, to the spilled wine on the walls (and breaking a child’s swing): Partygate has it all

Evening Standard

Labour on hiring spree across Whitehall in preparation for government

Exclusive: More than a dozen civil servants from different departments have moved to party in past 18 months

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been a good week’: Labour buoyed up by slick reshuffle and Tory woes

Party off to promising start to new parliamentary term but knows it cannot be complacent

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray quickly gets stuck in as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

Former civil servant offers morale boost and promises Labour staff she ‘has their back’

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer’s new-look Labour is fashioned in the hope of power

When Keir Starmer offered the role of chief of staff to Sue Gray, the senior civil servant who oversaw the partygate inquiry, he craved an organiser on his inner team who understood the interlocking levers of Whitehall — and the pitfalls of operating them.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer promotes Blairites as Labour thoughts turn to governing

The reshuffle, thought to have been deftly managed by Sue Gray, made a shadow cabinet heavy with stalwarts from the Blair-Brown era

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer’s reshuffle is about doubling down on Labour’s new seriousness

When Sue Gray worked in government one of her many sought-after skills was her advice on reshuffles. Today she reports for duty as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and will walk straight into a reshuffle. In a way this is an odd time to change the shadow cabinet. A…

The Independent UK

Labour reshuffle: Keir Starmer ‘to shake up shadow cabinet’ as Sue Gray joins staff

All eyes will be on what role Angela Rayner is left with following any changes, after speculation she may lose some duties

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The Independent UK

Starmer ‘to reshuffle shadow cabinet on Monday’ as Sue Gray starts Labour role

All eyes will be on what role Angela Rayner is left with following any changes, after recent speculation that she may lose some of her duties.

The Independent UK

Channel 4 announces casting for role of Boris Johnson in Partygate drama

New drama will depict the controversial gatherings that that took place at 10 Downing Street during lockdown

The Guardian - UK

Another PMQs outing for deputy Dowden? Sunak must be quite the sadist

Long before the end, even his own MPs were going for him. Bloodsports are less cruel

The Independent UK

Cabinet Secretary: Attempts made to weaponise Gray case to attack civil service

Simon Case criticised attacks on the civil service and disparaged the ‘dehumanising’ language of ‘the blob’.

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries faces investigation for ‘threatening’ civil servants over blocked peerage

Cabinet secretary reports Boris loyalist to chief whip and Commons Speaker after ‘forceful communications’

The Guardian - UK

Champagne with Rupert Murdoch … Keir Starmer’s Labour is preparing for power

The party is courting business and winning the media magnate’s ear, but team Starmer is at pains to show they take nothing for granted on the road to No 10

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray’s appointment as Labour chief of staff followed rules, Starmer says

Party leader ‘frustrated’ at not being able to defend hiring while it was scrutinised by Whitehall watchdog

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