Keir Starmer uses reshuffle after Sue Gray resignation to bolster top team

Keir Starmer moved to shore up his top team after his embattled chief of staff Sue Gray quit following months of sniping and criticism that she acknowledged had undermined the new Labour government.Gray resigned less than a week before the Labour government was due to mark its first 100 days in office, after becoming embroiled in a political storm at the heart of Downing Street.Gray will be replaced by Morgan McSweeney, who masterminded Labour’s election victory, and with whom she is said to have found herself at odds in government.While a number of senior Labour figures had downplayed the friction between Gray and McSweeney, both of whom are close to the prime minister, one cabinet minister had foreshadowed Gray’s future weeks ago, telling the Guardian: “One or both of them will have to go. It’s not going to be Morgan.”The top civil servant had been the subject of fierce and relentless briefings which started less than a month after Labour entered office.She had been…