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UK deputy PM Dominic Raab resigns over bullying allegations.

British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab walks outside Number 10 Downing Str... British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab walks outside Number 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville
British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab walks outside Number 10 Downing Str... British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab walks outside Number 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

After an independent investigation into allegations of bullying, British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigned from the cabinet on Friday.

The loss of the third senior minister over their behavior in the last six months will hurt Sunak’s efforts to reinvigorate the Conservative Party and disgrace him since he entered Downing Street in October pledging a government of integrity.

Raab resigned in a letter to the prime minister before the report was released, a setback for Sunak two weeks before English local council elections when his Conservatives are expected to do poorly.

“I called for the inquiry and undertook to resign if it made any finding of bullying whatsoever,” Raab wrote. “My word is important.”

Sunak said he was saddened by Raab’s resignation but believed ministers should set the highest standards.

Raab served as prime minister when the prime minister was absent or incapacitated. He was a strong Sunak ally and helped begin his prime ministerial bid last summer.

After Boris Johnson’s scandals and Liz Truss’s two-month departure, his resignation will not improve his government’s image.

During the five-month Raab probe, multiple government officials testified about bullying at three agencies.

The independent study by barrister Adam Tolley found that Raab was “intimidating” and “persistently aggressive” at the Foreign Office.

He went “further than was necessary or appropriate in delivering critical feedback and also insulting, in the sense of making unconstructive critical comments about the quality of work done” at the Justice Ministry.

“(Raab) has been able to regulate this level of ‘abrasiveness’ since the announcement of the investigation,” Tolley wrote. “He should have altered his approach earlier.”

Following government objections, Raab requested the investigation in November. He defended himself but said he was “duty bound” to accept the inquiry’s findings.

The assessment found he had never sworn, yelled, or physically intimidated anyone in four and a half years and dismissed all but two charges against him.

Raab apologized for any unintentional stress or offense but said the low bullying threshold “set a dangerous precedent” for good government.

His letter said this would “chill those driving change on behalf of your government – and ultimately the British people.”

Raab cited two instances of bullying against him: one at the Foreign Office over a senior diplomat’s handling of the Brexit negotiation over Gibraltar and one at the Ministry of Justice from 2021 to 2022, where he gave critical feedback.

Sunak was accused of “weakness” by Labour Party leader Keir Starmer for not firing his deputy instead of letting him go.

Another of Sunak’s senior ministers, Gavin Williamson, resigned in November after bullying charges. In addition, the prime minister fired Conservative Party head Nadhim Zahawi in January for violating the ministerial code by disclosing his tax troubles.

Sunak is under investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog for failing to register his wife’s investment in a daycare company that may benefit from new government policy.

 


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