Labour cronyism claims continue

Another day, another drama. The spotlight is back on Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot as accusations of cronyism continue to fly in. Now it transpires that yet another civil service appointee has rather strong political links to Starmer’s army. Ex-Labour Together campaigner Jess Sargeant has been appointed to a top civil service job, with Politico suggesting she will play a leading part on the issue of Lords reform. Alright for some…

As revealed by Guido Fawkes, Labour-sympathetic Sargeant has bagged a deputy director role with the Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Constitution group only eight months after she moved to ‘Starmerite central’ Labour Together. Before that, Sargeant was an Institute for Government think tanker, working as an associate director at the centre-left organisation. Rather interestingly, the Propriety and Constitution group happens to be the former workplace of, er, one Sue Gray – who moved in the opposite direction to become Sir Keir’s chief of staff – and prides itself on ‘ensuring the highest standards of propriety and ethics across all government departments’.