As Cabinet Office Director of Probity and Ethics, Sue Gray was used to being the Whitehall judge and jury. Usually her role during reshuffles was limited to asking the successfully appointed ministers questions about their finances, mistresses and internet search histories. But that weekend she was playing executioner too. By Friday lunchtime Gray was holed up in May’s private office, running the infamous reshuffle whiteboard in lieu of Spads and spinners … except no one could be put to the wall with a PM too weak to actually sack anyone.
