Dominic Raab resigns over bullying report

In the last few minutes Dominic Raab has announced that he has resigned from government following the findings of an investigation into allegations of bullying against him. Rishi Sunak received the report – by the barrister Adam Tolley KC – on Thursday morning and spent the evening consulting advisers on the best path forward as he pondered its contents. In the end, Raab made the decision for him.

In his letter, the deputy prime minister says he called for the inquiry and ‘undertook to resign, if it made any finding of bullying whatsoever’. Raab goes onto say that he believes it is important to ‘keep my word’ and the report has found against him on two counts.

That’s not to say, however, that Raab accepts the reports findings. He highlights that the report dismissed all but two allegations against him but that when it comes to those two ‘adverse’ findings, he believes they are ‘flawed’ and set a dangerous precedent.