Sue Gray resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

Downing Street chief of staff says ‘intense commentary around my position risked becoming a distraction’

Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and will take on a new government role, No 10 has announced.

Gray said she was standing down because it had “become clear to me that intense commentary around my position risked becoming a distraction to the government’s vital work of change”.