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Peter Oborne’s
Diary
Regular observations of the political scene at home and abroad
The Fatal Choice
It is a simple matter to identify the moment when it went wrong for Keir Starmer.
Three months after Labour’s landslide victory, the Prime Minister replaced Sue Gray with Morgan McSweeney as Downing Street Chief of Staff.
Long-term readers of this Diary will recall that, by then, I had already predicted the defenestration of Gray at the hands of the McSweeney faction. When it duly happened, I stated that her departure marked “a disaster for Labour but even more so for Britain”.
Sue Gray is an old Whitehall hand who can smell a wrong’un a mile off. Her list of candidates for the post of Ambassador to Washington did not include Peter Mandelson. With Gray out of the way, McSweeney could hustle through the appointment of his mentor.
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