Sue Gray questions class-based civil service internship scheme

Sue Gray questions class-based civil service internship scheme

The PM's former chief of staff says she "learned a lot from being around people from different walks of life" in the civil service.

Sue Gray questions working class-only civil service internship

Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Baroness Sue Gray has challenged the government’s plan to limit a civil service internship scheme to working-class students. The Labour peer questioned the “evidence base” behind last month’s decision to restrict a Whitehall internship to students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds”. The government argued the change will bring in “more working-class young people” widening the talent pool for a civil s…