Is Dominic Raab a bully?
Dominic Raab resigned as Deputy Prime Minister this week, after an investigation into bullying upheld some of the allegations against him. He didn’t go quietly however, claiming some ‘activist civil servants’ had been trying to block reforms they did not like. His successor, Oliver Dowden, told Sophy Ridge he had nothing to add to the findings of the investigation, but he hoped there wouldn’t be any lessening of the high standards civil servants are held to. He described Raab as a ‘man of his word’:
‘Not just a bullying minster, a failing minister’
The Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions was less sympathetic in his assessment of Dominic Raab. Speaking to Sophy Ridge, he agreed that high standards needed to be maintained, but attacked Raab’s record on the backlog in the courts, and questioned Rishi Sunak’s judgment, after losing a third cabinet minister:
Ofsted is a ‘lightning rod’ for criticism
Laura Kuenssberg’s programme was heavily focussed on education.
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