Sir Keir Starmer is accused of trying to put pressure on the BBC to drop a story that revealed his top assistant, more was paid than the prime minister himself.
Sir Keir is said to have asked the cabinet secretary Sir Simon Case to call the political editor Chris Mason of the company after he informed NO10 that he prepared to reveal her £ 170,000 salary.
A new book says that Sir Simon, supposedly an impartial official at the time, when the director of the BBC Tim Davie of the BBC called to air the reserves of Downing Street about the story.
Mrs. Gray's three months in NO10 were characterized by regular reports of tensions within the top team of Sir Keir, while it was leaked that she earned more than the salary of Sir Keir of £ 166,786.
She stopped later and refused a lesser job as an envoy for declated administrations, before she was made a pear as Baroness Gray van Tottenham.
In Get in, the journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund say that Sir Simon complained that some details of the story were not accurate, but Mr. Mason and Mr. Davie were told that they trusted their sources and the story would be performed.
They say he did not make a further attempt to prevent it from walking, but repeated that NO10 questioned some details.
No10 was asked to respond to the claims today.
Mrs. Gray's three months in NO10 were characterized by regular reports of tensions within the top team of Sir Keir, while it was leaked that she earned more than the salary of Sir Keir of £ 166,786.
Sir Keir is said to have asked cabinet secretary Sir Simon Case (photo) to call the political editor Chris Mason of the company after he had informed NO10 that he prepared to reveal her £ 170,000 salary.
A new book says that Sir Simon, supposedly an impartial official at the time, then called the director of the BBC Tim Davie (photo) of the BBC, to air the reservations of Downing Street about the story.
Mrs. Gray first made the headlines as a researcher of locked parties in Boris Johnson's government, with the impartiality of the officials who are later questioned in the midst of Tory criticism of her move to leave the cabinet office and to go to Labor Close as the staff of Sir Keir Starmer.
A row within the government arose in September this year after leaked disclosures revealed that Mrs. Gray received a wage increase after the elections, which meant that she earned more than Sir Keir.
The BBC reported that she received a salary of £ 170,000, based on a leak, which yielded her income about £ 3,000 more than that of the prime minister.
At the beginning of October, Mrs. Gray stopped as Downing Street Chief of Staff and explained: “In recent weeks it has become clear to me that intense comments around my position ran the risk of becoming a distraction for the vital change of the government.”
At the same time it was said that she would play a new role as envoys for the Council of the Nations and Regions, but she missed the inaugural meeting of the council, which caused confusion about when she would start, without 10 announcement a month later she would have decided the function cannot be taken.
