EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Working for Keir Starmer was like being in an 'abusive relationship', says Rosie Duffield By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 02:04 BST, 10 October 2024 | Updated: 02:24 BST, 10 October 2024 e-mail View comments Just when Sir Keir Starmer might have thought it safe to dust-off his free suit and polish his gratis spectacles after his mauling by Rosie Duffield over hypocrisy, the ex-Labour MP gives him another pummelling. Working for him, she says, was like being in an 'abusive relationship'. Describing a face-to-face meeting, she adds: 'He just looks like he does on television, utterly bewildered by being challenged, and affronted as well.
He is astonished that anyone dares to question him.' How was the pow-wow? 'Utterly pointless.' Batten down the hatches, Keir! Rosie Duffield (pictured) claims working for PM Sir Keir Starmer was like being in an 'abusive relationship' Ms Duffield said Sir Keir (pictured) 'looks like he does on television, utterly bewildered by being challenged, and affronted as well' Sue Gray 's defenestration marks the end of her Downing Street control of who gets nominated for honours.
This offers a smidgen of hope that Simon Case won't be the first cabinet secretary to leave without a peerage. Will Gray get a consolation gong? Speculation that she might get a damehood or even a peerage out of her short stint as the PM's chief of staff seem to be overblown. Of the 11 previous chiefs of staff to have held the position sin.