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The Times & The Sunday Times

Gray was just a symptom, not the disease

The Times & The Sunday Times
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63% Informative

Sue Gray spent more time on gardening leave than in Downing Street .

She was the seventh or eighth chief of staff (depending on how you count them) to pass through No 10 in five years .

Not since David Cameron has a PM actually managed the day-to-day business of government effectively.

Labour failed to notice that the internal machinery of government was broken so it never developed any plans to fix it.

Most of its MPs prefer to blame populism’ or “those Tories ” for the problem.

The few who do understand the need for reform look to Morgan McSweeney , Starmer ’s new chief of staff, as the agent of change.

But his move into government has shown another side to him, one that's unduly hesitant.

VR Score

73

Informative language

77

Neutral language

23

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

48

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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