Sacked Sue – now Baroness Gray of Tottenham – made her maiden speech in the Lords today, offering up a self-congratulatory career recap while insisting she never aimed for the top. The speech also included a paean of praise for civil service union leaders, including FDA boss Dave Penman. She then went on to whinge about offensive words used to describe the civil service, warning:
“I would caution all of us to be careful about our language…the phrases blob, pen-pushers, axes, and chainsaws.”
All the Conservatives targeted by her political campaigning inside Whitehall over the years will have no sympathy at all…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”