Pundits left red-faced over ‘serious politics’ claims

Another one bites the dust. Now Sue Gray has resigned from her top job as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, taking on an ‘advisory’ position while Labour campaign guru Morgan McSweeney moves into her role. The move follows weeks of bad briefings about Gray – from claims the Starmer staffer had ‘subverted’ Cabinet over Casement Park, refused to get paid less than the PM and was not seeing eye to eye with McSweeney himself. The drama never quite seemed to end. So much for serious government, eh? Certainly those commentators who gloated about Sir Keir’s Labour welcoming in a new age of mature politics must be feeling red-faced now. Mr S thought it would be useful to take a look at who exactly might want to swallow their words…

Take former politician Anna Soubry, for example, who was quick to take to Twitter post-election to write:

Is it just me but suddenly everything feels… normal? No more psychodramas and scandals.