{"id":68041,"date":"2023-11-06T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=68041"},"modified":"2023-11-06T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:22:06","slug":"nadine-dorries-reveals-why-sue-gray-quit-to-join-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/nadine-dorries-reveals-why-sue-gray-quit-to-join-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"NADINE DORRIES reveals why Sue Gray quit to join Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NADINE DORRIES reveals how Sue Gray&#8217;s dislike of Simon Case and her snub for the role of the Civil Service&#8217;s top dog led to her acrimonious defection to Labour<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: NADINE DORRIES:\u00a0Boris didn&#8217;t go to ANY wild lockdown parties<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is a known fact and the worst-kept secret in Westminster that Sue Gray and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case cannot stand each other.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever Gray is criticised, this is mounted in her defence, as in, &#8216;Yeah, but she has got the measure of Case, so she can&#8217;t be all bad.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I have been told by a source that Case was &#8216;let go&#8217; from No 10 during the time of Theresa May and went to work for the Royal Household as Private Secretary to Prince William.<\/p>\n<p>During the time he was there, he lunched with Michael Gove on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8216;salad&#8217; I was given to describe Case by civil servants appeared to come from the fact that he was so green \u2013 wholly untrained, unqualified and unable to do the job of Cabinet Secretary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77433769-12713299-image-a-44_1699218948051.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0NADINE DORRIES: It is a known fact and the worst-kept secret in Westminster that Sue Gray and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case cannot stand each other<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77410591-12713299-In_the_third_exclusive_extract_from_her_riveting_expos_of_the_si-a-61_1699219971223.jpg\" height=\"804\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In the third exclusive extract from her riveting expos\u00e9 of the sinister forces at the heart of the Tory Party, Nadine Dorries reveals how the campaign to undermine Boris Johnson was fuelled by their fears he would be too difficult to control\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The response from permanent secretaries across Whitehall was one of universal utter amazement when the announcement was made that Dominic Cummings had demanded that he was given the job.<\/p>\n<p>When Case was brought into No 10, my suspicion is that this is the point at which Gray, who had been loyal to Gove for so long, had maybe had enough and moved over to Labour.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure, given that Gove has put his neck out so often to back Sue Gray, that it would be useful for him to have someone on the inside of Labour HQ.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/06\/00\/77438907-12713299-image-m-63_1699229771626.jpg\" height=\"607\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>NADINE DORRIES: I am sure, given that Gove has put his neck out so often to back Sue Gray, that it would be useful for him to have someone on the inside of Labour HQ<\/p>\n<p><span>Adapted from The Plot by Nadine Dorries (HarperCollins Publishers, \u00a325), to be published on November 9. \u00a9 Nadine Dorries 2023. 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