Hypocrite Gray Who Pushed to Lower SpAd Salaries Paid More Than PM
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In the latest chapter of Labour’s cronyism saga, Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray is now pocketing a staggering £170,000 – £3,000 more than the Prime Minister himself. According to the BBC, Gray demanded the princely sum and ignored advice to take a few thousand less to ‘dodge this very story’…
Not only does Gray’s salary dwarf that of her Tory predecessor Liam Booth-Smith, she previously led the crusade for austerity in adviser pay. Back in 2016, while she was at the Cabinet Office, she spearheaded the policy to cap SpAd salaries at £72,000—though she pushed for them to be even lower. Now she’s raking in 236% of the salary cap she enforced…
A Tory source tells Guido:
“The hypocrisy of Sue Gray taking the highest ever SpAd salary – after years of cutting Tory spad pay at every opportunity and persecuting generations of Tory advisers – is a new level of reality.”
Hypocrisy from Labour comrades is a theme that seems never ending…
The Tories are asking questions about Sue’s salary:
- Did the Prime Minister personally sign off Sue Gray’s new salary and the increase to the Pay Band 4 cap?
- Does a Special Adviser Remuneration Committee still formally or informally exist?
- If so, has it met since the General Election to set policy and make individual decisions on Special Adviser pay?
- Is Sue Gray a member of this Committee?
- Has Sue Gray attended any of this Committee’s meetings or contributed to decisions / or commented on submissions whether verbally or in writing?
- What role did Sue Gray play in the setting of her own salary or the changes to the Pay Band 4 cap?
- Is it the case that Sue Gray does not set Special Adviser pay or that she has no involvement whatsoever in the setting of Special Adviser pay?
- If Sue Gray has no involvement in the setting of Special Adviser pay, to whom can Special Advisers raise complaints about their remuneration?
- Why did Cabinet Office Ministers refuse to come clean in a Parliamentary Question yesterday on changes to the Pay Band 4 cap?
- Is Sue Gray receiving any top up of her salary from the Labour Party?
The McSweeneyites are seething…
