"See me after class"?

Prescriptivist peeving has faded from public discourse, but UK politics recently brought us a blast from the past:

@Conservatives red-penciled two incomplete sentences ("(I am) Absolutely thrilled…" and "(There is) lots to do…), which is a bit hypocritical since it's trivial to find similar things in xeets from Tory politicians, e.g. "(Do you) Want a better job or a bigger salary?" from the current party leader on August 12.

They also red-penciled a silly typo (or autocorrect error), "the be" for "to be".

And they seem to think that "For me there's no more important job for any government than " requires grammatical improvement. I'm puzzled as to what the perceived problem is, so I'm asking for help from readers who may have access to a more complete list of current UK Zombie Rules than I do.

Is it the lack of a comma after "For me"? Surely they'd just pencil in the allegedly missing comma.

Is it the extraposition of the than-clause ("no more important job than making sure that S" rather than "no job more important than making sure that S")? This seems like a possible peeve, although it's trivial to find elite sources for the split rather than post-nominal version.

Or do they just want a version with simpler syntax?

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