When Sue Gray resigned as the prime minister's chief of staff last week, she said it was because she risked becoming a distraction to the government's vital work of change.
They always say something like that. Don't become the story that's supposedly the rule for pretty much anyone other than the prime minister.
Talk of my private life, widespread press reports of my cronyism and embezzlement, my cut-price hair transplant that went hilariously wrong... can become a distraction.
Now we can all settle down to be scintillated by the next act: Sir Keir Starmer and his Vital Work of Change in which Keir sculpts a lifesize statue of Clement Attlee.
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