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A top civil servant has privately raised concerns that Sue Gray broke impartiality rules by holding secret meetings with Sir Keir Starmer, it was claimed yesterday.
Susan Acland-Hood, permanent secretary at the Department of Education, is said to have raised concerns in an online Zoom call with colleagues.
The Telegraph reported that as she reminded other officials about their duty to impartiality, she said that Sue Gray becoming Sir Keir’s chief of staff ‘is a real challenge to acting in a way that deserves and retains the confidence of ministers’.
The role of permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant in a government department.
Ms Acland-Hood reportedly went through the Civil Service’s code on impartiality line by line, telling colleagues:
