Partygate investigator Sue Gray can start working as chief of staff of the Labour Party from September, six months after resigning from the civil service, Whitehall’s appointments watchdog has said.
Gray—who led an investigation into allegations of parties being held in Downing Street in breach of the COVID-19 lockdown rules—accepted a job offer from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in March.
The move prompted claims from former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Conservative MPs that she was politically biased and her Partygate report was tarnished.
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) said on Friday that it “shared some of the concerns” raised by government departments over the potential risk to the civil service’s integrity her move to Labour poses….