Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray is accused of helping to cover up the failures of the Labour-run NHS in Wales

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The controversial civil servant who is now Sir Keir Starmer’s top adviser has been accused of helping cover up failures of the Labour-run health service in Wales.

Sue Gray is said to have ‘dragged her heels’ as attempts were made to uncover just how badly the NHS was performing across the border.

She is said to have created ‘problems’ when she was responsible for policy on the Union within the Cabinet Office before her decision in March to become the Labour leader’s chief of staff.

‘Frankly I had problems with the current chief of staff to the Labour Party in her former guise as a senior civil servant,’ Welsh Secretary David TC Davies told The Sun on Sunday. 

He said she was ‘not keen’ on ‘being able to demand comparable statistics’ from the Welsh and UK Government.

Partygate investigator Sue Gray can start as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff in September after serving a six-month delay from when she left as a senior civil servant

But a Labour spokesman said the allegations against Ms Gray – who investigated the Partygate gatherings in No 10 – were ‘desperate stuff’ adding she ‘signed the first deal between the UK government and the devolved administrations to agree data should be shared’.

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