The UK government said opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s pick to be his most senior aide broke UK civil service rules by holding undeclared talks before taking the job, an accusation that will not prevent the appointment taking effect in September.
Sue Gray first spoke to Starmer about the role “approximately four months before she resigned from the civil service,” Cabinet Office Minister Jeremy Quin said in a written statement to Parliament on Monday. That was a “prima facie” breach of the civil service code, he said.
