Partygate chief Sue Grey ‘double dips’ her £1.8m pension together with her six-figure wage from her position as Keir Starmer’s new fixer

Partygate investigator Sue Grey is free to attract from a £1.8 million pension pot whereas additionally taking a six-figure wage from Sir Keir Starmer as his new fixer, The Mail on Sunday has established.

Ms Grey, 65, was on the centre of a political storm when it was revealed she was leaving the Civil Service to change into the Labour chief’s chief of employees.

In a case of so-called ‘double-dipping’, the previous civil servant will obtain an annual pension of between £85,000 and £90,000 now that she has give up Whitehall, and take her estimated £140,000 wage when she begins working for the Labour Party in September. 

She will additionally take a pension lump sum of between £256,000 and £260,000.

Earlier this month, a Cupboard Workplace inquiry concluded that Ms Grey’s failure to declare her contacts with Sir Keir – at a time when she was Second Everlasting Secretary within the Levelling Up Division – was a prima facie breach of the Civil Service code.

Partygate investigator Sue Grey is free to attract from a £1.8 million pension pot whereas additionally taking a six-figure wage from Sir Keir Starmer as his new fixer, The Mail on Sunday has established

Earlier this month, a Cupboard Workplace inquiry concluded that Ms Grey’s failure to declare her contacts with Sir Keir Starmer – at a time when she was Second Everlasting Secretary within the Levelling Up Division – was a prima facie breach of the Civil Service code

The transfer by Ms Grey, who carried out the Partygate inquiry into Boris Johnson’s behaviour at 10 Downing Avenue in the course of the pandemic, led to a row over Civil Service neutrality.

The dimensions of Ms Grey’s pension pot, which is substantial even by gold-plated Civil Service requirements, has raised eyebrows in Whitehall.

One supply even claimed it may need been ‘supplemented by the intelligence providers’.

Ms Grey has confronted unsubstantiated claims that when she all of the sudden left Whitehall in 1985 aged 27 to work on the Cove Bar in Northern Eire together with her husband, she was working undercover as a spy.

The bar, which has since closed, was simply ten minutes from the border with the Irish Republic in ‘bandit nation’ in rural County Down, which was an space swarming with IRA gunmen.

When she was requested in a 2021 interview with the BBC whether or not she had been a spy, she replied: ‘I do know you’ve had that put to you, um, and, er, I feel if I used to be a spy I’d be a fairly poor spy!

‘If persons are speaking about me being a spy, um, I feel folks right here have put a number of belief in me they usually’ve put a number of religion in me, and, um, er, you understand we’ve labored rather well collectively and I didn’t assume I’d be working externally in the way in which I’m.’

Eight weeks into their time working on the bar, her husband Invoice Conlon – the lead singer of a rustic and western band known as Emerald – determined that he ‘hated it’ and returned to London. Ms Grey adopted inside a 12 months.

Ms Grey resigned from the Cupboard Workplace in March after information of her tipped employment was leaked.

It was additionally earlier than the position had been mentioned with the Advisory Committee on Enterprise Appointments, the physique that vets the roles that civil servants take after leaving Whitehall.

Sources stated she had been involved with Labour for greater than 4 months by that time. Ms Grey declined to remark.

Cupboard Workplace information final week revealed civil servants are retiring three years earlier – at 62 – than the nationwide common of 65 as a result of their beneficiant public sector pension.