"No prime minister plans to spend the first hundred days in Downing Street learning how not to govern for the next hundred. The intensity of the job is famously relentless, but it's also supposed to be exhilarating."
"The departure of Sue Gray, his chief of staff, confirms it. Gray was hired from the civil service last year to coordinate preparations for government. It was her responsibility to make sure the new administration looked focused, professional, ready to deliver."
"McSweeney's admirers naturally see the new Downing Street arrangement as a positive development, clarifying chains of command and removing someone who was an origin of internal strife and a magnet for unhelpful publicity."
"Downing Street has denied these claims. Gray also has defenders, especially among Labour MPs. They see a powerful woman whose primacy at the centre of government was resented by a swagger."
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