Gray resignation: When you become the story you must move on

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Responding to the decision of Sue Gray to resign from her position as Downing Street chief of staff, Political commentator, John McTernan, said that “when you become the story you have to move on.” McTernan likened the resignation to that of Dominic Cummings under Boris Johnson. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think being Chief of Staff for the UK Prime Minister is really hard, and Dominic Cummings

00:05had to go when he worked for Boris Johnson. Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill had to go when

00:09they worked for Theresa May. It's a really highly pressured job, and the issue is when

00:13you're a staffer, when you become the story, you have to move on. And I think that's the

00:18actual thing. It's a very difficult job to do. I do think if the content had been larger

00:26on the part of the government, then that would have been the backdrop for stories. It wouldn't

00:31have been an empty media filled with gossip, filled with stories, filled with backbiting.

00:35That, I think, was a challenge.

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