内容摘要："I was hoping we'd spend our dotage collecting together as we were of similar ages, but sadly that wasn't to be the case."

"I was hoping we'd spend our dotage collecting together as we were of similar ages, but sadly that wasn't to be the case."

When a job to lead the Northern Ireland civil service became available she applied, but did not get it.Unusually for a normally private individual, she gave an interview to the BBC admitting she was "disappointed" she did not get the top job and suggested she may have been seen as "too much of a challenger, or a disrupter".

In 2021, she returned to the Cabinet Office leading on matters related to the Union and the constitution.She may have spent the bulk of her career in the civil service, but in the late 1980s she did take a career break to run a pub near Newry in County Down, called the Cove Bar, along with her husband, country and western singer Bill Conlon.She told the BBC: "I loved it, loved it at the time, I'd never do it again."

In 2021, Ms Gray was catapulted into the limelight when she was given the task of investigating whether Covid rules had been followed in government during the pandemic.that staff had partied in Downing Street while the rest of the UK was in lockdown, with the approval of their bosses.

She said many events "should not have been allowed", and then-Prime Minister Mr Johnson "must bear responsibility".

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