Publish your Sue Gray texts, Keir Starmer told

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to publish his messages with civil servant Sue Gray amid a Tory outcry over her move to become his chief of staff.

Ms Gray, who received national attention in her role investigating Partygate, is today expected to formally ask parliament’s anti-corruption watchdog for permission to work for the opposition leader.

Boris Johnson and his allies have questioned the appointment as part of efforts to discredit an inquiry into whether he 
lied to MPs over lockdown breaches.

Cabinet minister Chris Heaton-Harris said he had worked with Ms Gray and praised her integrity.

But he said Sir Keir should publish all contact he had with her.

‘I think Keir can clear this up in seconds by saying this is what we talked about at that time, there’s nothing to see here,’ he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge.

Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth said Ms Gray was always going to be on the list for consideration.

Former Tory Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said he never had the slightest reason to question her integrity or political impartiality.

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