{"id":78058,"date":"2024-10-06T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=78058"},"modified":"2024-10-06T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T12:17:19","slug":"for-number-10-to-lose-two-pivotal-managers-in-a-week-says-more-about-starmer-than-it-does-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/10\/06\/for-number-10-to-lose-two-pivotal-managers-in-a-week-says-more-about-starmer-than-it-does-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"For Number 10 to lose two pivotal managers in a week says more about Starmer than it does about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/oct\/06\/sue-gray-resigns-as-keir-starmer-chief-of-staff-downing-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian has just posted<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff and will take on a new government role, No 10 has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Gray said she was standing down because it had \u201cbecome clear to me that intense commentary around my position risked becoming a distraction to the government\u2019s vital work of change\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It's important to recall that Simon Case, the head of the civil service, also resigned within the last week, supposedly on health grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Case was not Starmer's choice, but the briefing against him was intense.<\/p>\n<p>Gray was Starnmer's choice, and it would seem as if it was an extremely unwise one.<\/p>\n<p>To lose one pivotal manager in a week is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>To lose two is not careless: it says something deeply uncomfortable about the boss. In this case, I think the message is clear: he's not up to the job. The centre cannot hold, as the saying goes. Time will tell if I am right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has just posted that: Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff and will take on a new<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/10\/06\/for-number-10-to-lose-two-pivotal-managers-in-a-week-says-more-about-starmer-than-it-does-about-them\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78059,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78058\/revisions\/78059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}