Media reacts to Dominic Raab’s resignation
Dominic Raab has resigned as the UK’s deputy PM and justice secretary following an investigation that found he had acted in an “intimidating way” towards staff and had been “unreasonably and persistently aggressive” in meetings with other civil servants while foreign secretary.
The five-month investigation was conducted by employment barrister Adam Tolley KC, during which time Raab attended four interviews regarding allegations of bullying.
Tolley’s full report was delivered to the Prime Minister, and while Tolley writes that he found “the DPM did not any adverse effect on others”, “Some of his conduct was undoubtedly experienced as abrasive and difficult”, though “the DPM was so focused on achieving his desired outcomes […] that there were occasions when he did not take into account, fully or at all, his likely effect on some others.”
It also notes that “during the DExEU Period […] no-one used the term ‘bullying’ (or anything similar) in discussion with him.”
In response to the report, Raab has released a resignation letter and accused civil servants of coordinating against him, noting that while almost all of the claims against him have been dismissed, the remaining two claims are “adverse findings”, “flawed”, “and set a dangerous precedent for the conduct of good government”.
Media response was predictably mixed, with most right-leaning publications leaping to Raab’s defense, and left-leaning outlets amplifying the self-serving outcomes of the report (notably double-sided itself) as further failing and scandal around the broken Conservative party.
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