Raab Resigns

[SueEllen]

He's been made to resign.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ng-allegations

Dominic Raab has resigned as justice secretary and deputy prime minister after months of allegations about bullying behaviour in the Ministry of Justice and other Whitehall departments.

The senior Conservative MP had faced multiple formal complaints over his dealings with civil servants, including claims, first revealed by the Guardian, that he bullied and belittled staff, driving some to tears or causing them to vomit before meetings.

The departure of such a close political ally is a major blow to Rishi Sunak who will face questions over his judgment after allowing Raab to stay in post while an investigation by Adam Tolley KC, a leading employment barrister, was held.

Some Tory MPs are privately concerned that Sunak’s handling of the row, in the wake of the Nadhim Zahawi tax affair, would further undermine his pledge to instill “integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level” of his government as he tries to move on from the Boris Johnson era.

Raab had consistently denied any bullying of civil servants, including some in senior roles, and said he would vigorously contest the formal complaints about his behaviour as justice secretary and, previously, as foreign secretary and Brexit secretary.

[SueEllen]

Oh yeah letter -

[malvolio]

"Made to resign"...?

It reads far more like a sensible and principled campaign to highlight the total idiots at the top of the civil service that ministers have to deal with and the damage they are doing to the machinery of government. Being asked to do your job properly is not bullying. Pushing a capable minister to resign on the back of some fairly specious and apparently marginal complaints - only two of the twelve seem to have any merit - is not doing your job.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Raab is nobody's fall guy.

[woohoo]

Yep quite liked him for a politician, the bar is pretty low though. Seemed to have some drive about him and could string a sentence together.

Liked the bit about setting the bar so low for bullying.

[WTFH]

Bully resigns for bullying, blames victims, and his fan club tell him he's right to blame them, it's all the fault of his victims, not his.

At least it save's Rishi's blushes at having to live up to his claims of integrity and accountability.

[malvolio]

Bully resigns for bullying, blames victims, and his fan club tell him he's right to blame them, it's all the fault of his victims, not his.

At least it save's Rishi's blushes at having to live up to his claims of integrity and accountability.

You really need to work on your comprehension skills...

[SueEllen]

Bully resigns for bullying, blames victims, and his fan club tell him he's right to blame them, it's all the fault of his victims, not his.

At least it save's Rishi's blushes at having to live up to his claims of integrity and accountability.

Mmm..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2226349.html

Dominic Raab has said a confidentiality agreement he and a former colleague signed over a historic claim of bullying was "standard" practice.

The deputy prime minister was quizzed over the episode, which dates from before he became an MP, in the Commons on Wednesday.

It comes as he faces new and separate accusations of bullying while working in government as both foreign secretary and justice secretary.

On Wednesday Labour MP Bambos Charalambous asked the deputy prime minister whether he could "tell the house if he has ever entered into a nondisclosure agreement connected to a complaint against him" – prompting gasps from other MPs.

Mr Raab replied: "He's referring to an employment dispute that was settled before I entered the house. It wasn't an NDA, but it did involve a confidentiality clause, which was standard at the time."
The Tory MP had previously been asked about the episode in 2019, when he stood in the contest to lead the Conservative party.

The agreement had come under scrutiny because the woman who also signed the clause said it made it impossible for her to reply to claims made by Mr Raab and his political allies about the alleged bullying incident.

Tory MP Maria Miller had told the BBC at the time that the claims were “vexatious”, but the other party to the agreement was unable to contest this in public.

[WTFH]

You really need to work on your comprehension skills...

Yes, sure, whatever you say...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[WTFH]

a capable minister ...

Do you suffer from short term memory loss?

Remember when he was arguing about the Northern Ireland Protocol as Brexit Minister, but he'd never got round to reading the Good Friday Agreement?
Or when he was on holiday, but claimed these was closed, and that delayed the evacuation from Afghanistan?
Or his insistence on using private jets for his journeys?
Or how he didn't think Dover-Calais ferry route was important to the UK trade with the EU?
Or referring to people who rely on food banks as having a cash-flow problem?
Or when he told a disabled campaigner that reversing NHS cuts was a "childish wishlist"?

Do I need to go on?

[malvolio]

Do you suffer from short term memory loss?

Remember when he was arguing about the Northern Ireland Protocol as Brexit Minister, but he'd never got round to reading the Good Friday Agreement?
Or when he was on holiday, but claimed these was closed, and that delayed the evacuation from Afghanistan?
Or his insistence on using private jets for his journeys?
Or how he didn't think Dover-Calais ferry route was important to the UK trade with the EU?
Or referring to people who rely on food banks as having a cash-flow problem?
Or when he told a disabled campaigner that reversing NHS cuts was a "childish wishlist"?

Do I need to go on?

Why not. You usually do.