Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Rishi Sunak distances himself from Raab’s resignation

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Rishi Sunak seems keen to stand back from the row about Dominic Raab, offering more of a commentary on it being ‘right’ that the deputy prime minister and Justice Secretary has quit government, rather than accepting that Raab was a bully. His reply to Raab’s resignation letter suggests this, and this afternoon his official spokesman said the Prime Minister thought it was ‘right’ to make the commitment to resign if there was a finding of bullying and that the former Secretary of State had ‘kept his word’. ‘He thanks him for his work and it has allowed him to form a judgement and he will now be focused on the work of government,’ the spokesman said.

The timeline of what happened between Adam Tolley KC’s report arriving and Raab quitting is as follows: the Prime Minister received the report yesterday morning, then spoke to Tolley and his independent adviser to answer a number of questions about the report.

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Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator and author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians. She also presents Radio 4’s Week in Westminster.

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