2023-04-21 13:21:27
Britain lost his deputy prime minister and probably, in the next few hours, a new conservative deputy in their ranks. Dominic Raab resigned this Friday in a fury after allegations of bullying and harassment of staff members while working as a cabinet minister in different departments.
He will be replaced as secretary of justice by Alex ChalkMP for Cheltenham, currently holding the post of Minister of Defense.
A dramatic day in the kingdom. In a letter posted on Twitter, the deputy prime minister and the justice secretary revealed a report on his behavior, which confirmed two accusations against him.
With this resignation, Raab prevented the prime minister Rishi Sunak fired him. But he took issue with the findings, calling them “defective” and stating that they “set a dangerous precedent for the conduct of good government.”
Bullying allegations about Raab surfaced in November. Former employees claimed that created a “culture of fear” in their departments.
Raab denies allegations
Raab denied the allegations and requested an investigation into himself after two formal complaints were filed. As the weeks passed, more allegations came to light, with one report suggesting that there had been up to 24 complaints.
Raab indicated that Adam Tolley KC’s investigation had confirmed allegations of intimidation made by public officials. But he said that the “threshold for bullying” had been set “very low”. Tolley was investigating at least eight formal complaints filed about Raab’s behavior in three different departments.
This is a bitter, personal and angry resignation letter sent by Dominic Raab to the Prime Minister.
The letter does not include an actual apology, instead appearing his true feelings of anger. Until Thursday night he believed he shouldn’t quit.
bosses and thugs
In his first reaction from the civil servants union, which accused him of bullying, he said: “There are demanding bosses and there are bullies. Everyone knows the difference between a demanding boss and a bully.”.
Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, was asked during an appearance on BBC Breakfast if the claims against Dominic Raab could be the result of many different expectations in the workplace between generations.
Penman said, “We don’t need to redefine bullying. Bullying is dealt with in workplaces all over the country. There are demanding bosses and there are bullies, and everyone knows the difference.”
Gole para Sunak
Your departure is a blow for Rishi Sunak, who loses his third cabinet minister due to scandal in just six months as prime minister.
Dominic Raab had been one of the main supporters of Sunak’s leadership campaign. The prime minister must now appoint a new justice secretary and can also choose to appoint a new minister as his number two.
In politics there are two types of resignation: those in which a minister genuinely accepts that his time is up and those in which the prime minister pushes him to do so.
The departure of Dominic Raab from the government belongs to the latter group. The Secretary of Justice and the Deputy Prime Minister resigned, but he did not do it willingly.
On Thursday night, Raab’s allies made it clear that the minister could survive Adam Tolley’s report on the harassment allegations against him. They said that Raab, who had already read the report, “I would fight to the death” to keep your job.
However, on Friday morning he left with an angry resignation letter in which he attacked both Tolley and those who had made the claims against him.
The investigation, he claimed, had set the threshold for bullying “so low” that it had set a “dangerous precedent”.
“It will encourage bogus complaints against ministers and have a chilling effect on those who are pushing for change on behalf of their government and ultimately the British people,” the former deputy premier said.
Sunak accepted the resignation
But Sunak, perhaps for broader political considerations, obviously did not agree. Downing Street always made it clear that they did not want to allow Raab to be thrown out without substantive evidence.
Raab was one of Sunak’s loyal supporters, sticking with him through the summer even as it became clear his first leadership campaign was doomed.
He came to Downing Street with the promise of “restore confidence” in politics, after the scandals of Boris Johnson’s term.
Sunak ultimately concluded that Raab’s position was untenable and that he could not publicly defend his deputy from the findings of the Tolley report.
Raab also used his letter to criticize the “systematic leaking of biased and fabricated claims to the media” and the “coercive removal” of dedicated private secretaries from his office by a senior official.
They ask for his resignation as deputy
The resignation came after Rishi Sunak was presented with the findings of the official report on Raab’s behavior on Thursday.
A Labor source said it was the second time a cabinet minister had been “allowed to resign”. on accusations of intimidationnoting that Sir Gavin Williamson resigned last year, rather than the prime minister sacking him.
“We have had 13 years of Tory Prime Ministers trying to skirt the rules and defend their peers,” they added. “Enough,” they demanded.
The Liberal Democrats called for Raab to resign as an MP and for a by-election to be held in his seat. To them he has shown that he “not only is he unfit to serve as a minister, but he is totally incapable of representing his constituents in parliament.”
raab’s letter
In the letter to the prime minister, Raab wrote: “I have requested an investigation and have promised to resign if there is any finding of intimidation. I think it is important to keep my word.”
The outgoing minister said the report, carried out by independent researcher Adam Tolley KC, argues that “not once, in four and a half years, cursed or yelled at anyone, let alone threw anything or physically intimidated anyonenor did he intentionally try to put anyone down.”
Raab said this investigation sets a “dangerous precedent.” “It will encourage spurious complaints against ministers and will have a chilling effect on those who are pushing for change on behalf of their government and ultimately on the British people.”
“Really sorry for any stress or offense unintended that officials felt, as a result of the pace, standards and challenge I brought to the Justice Ministry. “However, that is what the public expects of ministers working on their behalf,” Raab said.
He also attacked the investigation process, saying there had been “a series of irregularities” including the “systematic leaking of biased and fabricated claims to the media” and “the coercive removal by a senior official of dedicated private secretaries” from his private office.
He signed off signaling his loyalty to the prime minister, writing: “I continue to support you and this government, just like when I first introduced you at your campaign leadership launch last July. You have proven to be a great prime minister in very difficult times. and you can count on my support from the seats,” he said.
Pressure on the premier
Raab was appointed by Sunak after he took power in October. Less than 48 hours ago he sat next to the Prime Minister at the Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons.
Sunak has come under pressure over what he knew about Raab’s alleged conduct. The prime minister had been informed about Raab’s “unacceptable behaviour” before naming him his deputy and secretary of justice.
Downing Street said that Sunak “I was not aware” of any “formal complaints” about Raab when he appointed him. But Downing St did not deny that the concerns had been expressed informally.
Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer previously accused the prime minister of ignoring reports of Raab’s conduct.
Raab’s departure follows Sunak’s decision to sack Tory party chairman Nadhim Zahawi from his post in January after the former chancellor was found to have breached the ministerial code over his tax affairs.
who is raab
Dominic Raab is above all a Brexiteerwho helped bring Boris Johnson to power.
Was justice secretary, chancellor and deputy prime minister.
He was born on February 25, 1974 in Buckimghamshire and is the son of a Czech refugee, of Jewish origin, who came to Great Britain in 1938.
He was raised as an Anglican by his mother. He graduated with a law degree from Oxford University and then an LLM from Cambridge.
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