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What on earth is happening in Downing Street? On what doable grounds is the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Sue Gray, paid extra – out of our cash – than the Prime Minister himself? What message does that ship out? Who is admittedly in cost?

And it’s even steered she was even warned a narrative like this might occur, simply prevented if she’d simply opted for a number of quid lower than Sir Keir. But no, apparently it’s okay for her to be the one girl in her 60s higher off underneath this Labour Government. In a Government of own-goals, this can be a whopper and massively insulting to hard-working taxpayers.

Let us keep in mind that Labour need to painting themselves as on the facet of staff. It’s in each different soundbite issued. Yet the one option to stack that argument up is to take a look at what they’re doing to non-workers within the type of pensioners, viciously leaving hundreds of them with out the funds to warmth their houses this winter.

They’re definitely not on the facet of their very own Labour staff, with Special Advisors (SpAds) taking what they thought could be soft numbers in Whitehall and massive pay will increase in comparison with their privately funded Opposition roles only a few months in the past. But no, the decrease rating SpAds are apparently taking pay cuts, while the boss-lady lotions it in at our expense.

Worse than that many are reported to have labored for weeks earlier than even being provided a contract and pay settlement, compelled to just accept one thing a lot lower than that they had been led to imagine. It’s nearly Victorian in perspective. Labour SpAds should be questioning in the event that they’re additionally about to be despatched up the chimney with a brush.

It is not any marvel one offended Government insider is reported as having branded Gray’s pay as “the highest ever special adviser salary in the history of special advisers”. This is Labour’s Britain of us. If that is how they deal with a few of their very own, Heaven assist us all forward of the brutal funds coming subsequent month.