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The sub-plot is that Sue Gray was warned this would be a story, but was either too greedy for an additional £3k, or too politically unaware to realise the terrible optics, or both, that she pressed ahead.
Or, someone just made up the fact that she was warned in that quote (as according to some spokesperson). We have no way of knowing
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Since Cummings has been mentioned, it is worth noting that he mandated that all spads and comms people in government could not be paid more than £100k.
Obviously he exempted himself from that as he was earning £140,000-£144,999 in 2020.
Adjust that for inflation and you're in the region of what Gray is earning now.
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I think since Brexit and the psychodrama of the Tories, people have forgotten what a good political operation looks like. Normally, it is a sign of chaos and dysfunction if spads are taking off-the-record potshots at the PM's chief of staff. The fact that this is already happening a couple of months after a landslide victory when Starmer and his team should be at the peak of their political authority is alarming.
That is the story. The sub-plot is that Sue Gray was warned this would be a story, but was either too greedy for an additional £3k, or too politically unaware to realise the terrible optics, or both, that she pressed ahead.
Since Cummings has been mentioned, it is worth noting that he mandated that all spads and comms people in government could not be paid more than £100k.
Obviously all these people could earn more in the private sector, but as Starmer keeps telling us, it should be about public service.