Jill Rutter on AP: Why did Dominic Rabb resign?

Dominic Raab has resigned as the UK’s deputy prime minister and as justice secretary after an official report into bullying allegations found he had acted in an “intimidating” manner towards civil servants.

The investigation by Adam Tolley KC, a leading employment barrister, said Raab had on a number of occasions “gone further” than appropriate in delivering critical feedback and been insulting about work done by Ministry of Justice officials.

[catinthehat]

Here's an extract from The End of the Party by Andrew Rawnsley about Brown's behaviour toward Civil Servants- yet strangely, no complaint was ever made and no investigation took place. Makes Raab look like a pussycat.

"Over the years, I've had all sorts of things thrown at me (by Brown) – newspapers, pens, Coke cans."
He was in a permanent state of rage, " observes one civil servant. "Staff were afraid of him because he was always shouting at people, being unpleasant, constantly blaming people for things going wrong. He never had a nice word to say to anybody."
One civil servant who applied for a position at Number 10 was asked at the interview whether he could cope with "extreme verbal abuse" and violence done to objects. The civil servant was so scared by the description of what it could be like to work for the Prime Minister that he withdrew his application.
Sir Gus O'Donnell became "very worried" about Brown's treatment of staff at Number 10. If it led to a formal complaint against the Prime Minister that would be both unprecedented and disastrous. The Cabinet Secretary tried to calm down frightened duty clerks, badly treated phone operators and other bruised staff by telling them "don't take it personally".

[hughcaskey]

Raab tried to get lazy civil servants to work he should never have resigned it’s time these wasters were back in their offices doing some work instead of lying on their sofas farting their day away

[alexanderromanov]

Sunac's sugar-daddy-in-law, Mr. Murthy, told Fishi, "sack the little cnut Raab, or I'll divorce you from my daughter's cash and get a real man to do the job"