{"id":133102,"date":"2024-08-16T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/britains-most-powerful-woman-goes-to-war\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:10:19","slug":"britains-most-powerful-woman-goes-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/britains-most-powerful-woman-goes-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s most powerful woman goes to war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133102\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nLast September U.K. Labour Leader Keir Starmer appointed one of Britain\u2019s most senior officials, Sue Gray, as his all-powerful chief of staff to spearhead his party\u2019s preparations for government. Now Starmer is prime minister, following last month\u2019s landslide election victory, Gray is one of the central figures charged with driving through the changes to Britain he promised on his path to power.<\/p>\n<p>Gray has spent most of her career within Britain\u2019s impartial civil service, holding a succession of powerful Whitehall roles culminating in an investigation into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s conduct in the so-called Partygate scandal \u2014 which ultimately led to his resignation. But while Gray knows the levers of the government machine well, she has long proved a divisive figure. \u201cSue\u2019s got her fans from when she was a civil servant, and she\u2019s got the people who didn\u2019t like her either personally or because they crossed swords with her,\u201d said one senior Whitehall official who has worked closely with Gray.<\/p>\n<p>A former Tory special adviser put it more bluntly: \u201cShe knows how the system works, which is why she was hired \u2014 but has made plenty enemies on both the official and political side, so will have a huge fight on her hands.\u201d This week the Mail on Sunday reported that Gray had been accused of restricting access to the prime minister, including officials attempting to give Starmer an intelligence briefing. Downing Street denied the reports as \u201cnoises off from people who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labour staffers privately complain Gray has slowed both ministerial and special adviser appointments, with most decisions requiring her personal approval. Eyebrows were raised when her son, Liam Conlon, was offered an unpaid role in the Department for Transport within days of being elected an MP in July. Labour denied that she had a pivotal influence over approving appointments. \u201cIt\u2019s not about who she likes, but more about who she rates,\u201d said the senior Whitehall official quoted above. \u201cShe does not suffer fools gladly. She never has done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gray\u2019s formidable reputation in Westminster was established during her time as the civil service\u2019s head of ethics, a wide-ranging role which included investigating the conduct of ministers and officials \u2014 making potentially career-ending judgements about whether senior figures had followed the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Her status within Whitehall became almost mythical. In his memoir on the 2010-15 government, former Lib Dem minister David Laws recounted a now-famous tongue-in-cheek conversation with the Cabinet Office Minster Oliver Letwin, who noted drily that \u201cour great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless she agrees, things just don\u2019t happen. Cabinet reshuffles, departmental reorganizations, the whole lot \u2014 it\u2019s all down to Sue Gray,\u201d Letwin went on. \u201cNothing moves in Whitehall unless Sue says so.\u201d Certainly, many who have worked with Gray praise her ability to get things done.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/chief-of-staff-sue-gray-labour-party-keir-starmer-british-politics\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/chief-of-staff-sue-gray-labour-party-keir-starmer-british-politics\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/britains-most-powerful-woman-goes-to-war\/\">Britain\u2019s most powerful woman goes to war<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15736,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-britains-most-powerful-woman","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}