It has been 24 hours since Rishi Sunak was handed the findings of an investigation into eight allegations of bullying against his deputy, Dominic Raab. The report, which is understood to be “very lengthy”, was handed to Number 10 at 9.00 am on Thursday morning, with the prime minister said to be “carefully considering” its
“Professionalism, integrity and accountability”. How quickly a catchphrase becomes a curse. This tyrannical tricolon has hung spectre-like over the first six months of Rishi Sunak’s administration, driving important figures from government on an almost routine basis. The latest to be sacrificed at the altar of accountability is of course Dominic Raab, » Read More
Dominic Raab has written to the prime minister to resign after Rishi Sunak was handed a report yesterday into allegations of his deputy’s bullying behaviour. The report is yet to be made public, but within his resignation letter Mr Raab reveals that senior lawyer Adam Tolley upheld two of the eight allegations against him. » Read
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick is expected to announce today that two RAF bases in Essex and in Lincolnshire will be used to house those waiting to have asylum claims processed. The government is also thought to be considering using ferries or converted barges for a similar process. Deputy prime minister Dominic Raab confirming this morning
The Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab has been accused of sexism on Wednesday in the House of Commons after he gave Labour MP Angela Rayner a wink during Prime Minister’s… The post Dominic Raab winks at Labour’s Angela Rayner during PMQs over ‘champagne socialism’ leaving an MP feeling ‘soiled’ appeared first on London Business News…
In the early years of the last decade, the deportation of Abu Hamza al-Masri from the United Kingdom to the United States became a national conversation. Despite several requests for the extradition of the radical preacher who called for global jihad, the case spent years travelling up the courts, finally reaching the European Court of…
Angela Rayner and Dominic Raab faced off in Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, with the Labour deputy leader leading on security concerns around Lord Lebedev’s peerage. Rayner pressed the deputy prime minister over reports that British security forces warned against awarding Evgeny Lebedev a seat in the House of Lords. Raab stated Lord Lebedev’s peerage…
Labour’s shadow justice secretary Steve Reed has labelled the government’s proposed changes to the Human Rights Act as ‘a dead cat distraction’. Speaking to the Commons, Reed said: “It’s a dead cat distraction tactic by a government that doesn’t know how to fix the criminal justice system that they’ve broken and is desperate to divert…
Deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, faced questions from the deputy Labour leader, Angela Rayner, at Prime Minister’s Questions today in the House of Commons. Rayner seemed to enjoy her time in the spotlight, aiming a few personal jabs at Raab, saying: “A worker on the minimum wage would need to work an extra 50 days…
In the red corneer, the wounded outgoing foreign secretary Dominic Raab. in the blue corner, his replacement, the high-flying Lizz Truss. The prize up for grabs? A 17th-century country house! Typically, Chevening is used as the private residence of the foreign secretary. Raab, furious at being demoted during Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle last week, has…
