The news that Sue Gray, second permanent secretary in the Cabinet Office and head of the partygate inquiry, has resigned from the Civil Service and will be taking up a new role as Labour’s chief of staff has not been taken well.
Tory MPs descended on Gray, questioning her supposed impartiality. “So much for an impartial Civil Service,” Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeted, “the Gray report now looks like a left wing stitch up against a Tory Prime Minister.” This is a new attack for Conservatives to unite around: the civil servant who took down Boris Johnson was a die-hard Labourite.
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