So, Cluedo fans, who finished off Sue Gray? Was it Chris Mason in the BBC newsroom with the revelation her £170,000 salary topped that of the PM? Was it Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire in the Sunday Times with the exclusive that Gray’s close friend Waheed Alli had been given a No 10 pass after his work leading the election fundraising campaign? Or maybe it was Pogrund again, a short while later, when he exposed the PM had breached parliamentary rules by failing to declare Lord Alli’s frocks for Victoria Starmer.
Maybe it was Sky News in its Westminster Accounts project, which showed Keir Starmer had pocketed the largest number of freebies and hospitality recorded of any MP since 2019 (a political disaster Gray should have seen coming). Or perhaps the Sun’s reporting that Gray had moved campaign strategist Morgan McSweeney’s desk further from the PM’s office. Or was it Westminster snapper Steve Back in a front-page image for the Daily Mail which showed Gray in a tense meeting with Michael Bourke, a member of the cabinet secretary’s team, and thereby revealed the dysfunction at the heart of Downing Street?
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