After Sue Gray's resignation, this is the team selected to turn around Sir Keir Starmer's premiership

Sue Gray resigned on Sunday as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff just three months after Labour came to power.

Widely seen as being ordered to resign, Ms Gray has now claimed she was “pleased to have accepted a new role as the Prime Minister’s envoy for the regions and nations”.

It follows weeks of infighting and briefing wars in Downing Street, with rows over Ms Gray’s salary and government freebies. There was also deep unease among some government insiders and many Labour MPs over Ms Gray’s position, power and influence.

Now Ms Gray has been replaced, here’s who leads Sir Keir’s top team and what they bring to the table.

Morgan McSweeney, chief of staff

Ms Gray been replaced as chief of staff by Morgan McSweeney, who led Labour’s general election campaign, and with whom she was reported to have repeatedly clashed.

The mastermind behind Sir Keir’s leadership campaign, Mr McSweeney entered Number 10 as head of political strategy, and his appointment will be popular with Labour staff who find him to be one of them.

However, his role leading the think-tank Labour Together, which campaigned to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s influence in the party, means there may be some on the left who view him with suspicion. There will also now be likely be questions from the SNP over funding for the Starmerite think-tank.

Mr McSweeney also worked for the party during the New Labour years and had a stint as chief of staff to UK environment secretary Steve Reed when he was leader of Lambeth Council.

The new chief of staff is married to Imogen Walker, the new Labour MP for Hamilton and Clyde Valley.

Vidhya Alakeson and Jill Cuthbertson, deputy chiefs of staff

There are two new deputy chiefs of staff - Vidhya Alakeson, the political director at Number 10, and Jill Cuthbertson, who has been director of government relations in Downing Street since July.

Ms Alakeson previously worked as deputy director of the Resolution Foundation think-tank and was the founder of a charitable trust, Power to Change, that supports community businesses.

Ms Cuthbertson previously worked for Labour leaders Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, and is widely respected.

James Lyons, director of strategic communications

After weeks of briefings about tensions inside Number 10, former journalist James Lyons will be in charge of a new strategic communications team, joining Downing Street from social media giant TikTok.

An experienced former tabloid and broadsheet journalist who went on to work in PR, Mr Lyons has great contacts across Westminster, including both journalists and politicians. As well as TikTok, he was previously communications chief for the NHS in 2017, before rising to a director job.

He is now expected to have to delete TikTok from his phone.

Ninjeri Pandit, principal private secretary

Nin Pandit, who previously ran the Downing Street policy unit, has been appointed principal private secretary to the Prime Minister, a senior civil service position. Dominic Cummings once described her as “the brilliant women around the table” who would have done the job of prime minister “ten times better” than Boris Johnson.