Sue Gray given peerage as Labour seeks to rebalance Lords
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Senior civil servant stepped down from role as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff amid tensions in Downing Street. Sue Gray, the former chief of staff to Keir Starmer, has been given a peerage alongside dozens of other people as the government moves to rebalance the political forces in the House of Lords.
Gray, the senior civil servant who joined Labour before the general election and was appointed No 10 chief of staff after Starmer became prime minister, was among a swathe of new Labour peers, as well as a smaller number of Conservatives, announced on Friday.
Gray, whose expected peerage was revealed by the Guardian, stepped down from the chief of staff role in October amid tensions with Starmer’s head political strategist, Morgan McSweeney, who replaced her. Downing Street said Gray would take up a post as Starmer’s envoy to the nations and regions, but she turned this down.
