Dominic Raab resigns over bullying report
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Natasha Feroze speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman.
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| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Natasha Froze and I'm joined by Isabelle Hardman and Katie Bulls. |
| 0:28.0 | Well Dominic Rob has just resigned in the last few minutes and Katie, what did we get from his |
| 0:33.2 | resignation letter? So ultimately it is a case of Dominic Rob choosing to go but that's not |
| 0:38.9 | the same as in accepting the findings of the report. So it's a mixed bag really in terms of what |
| 0:44.0 | it means. I mean he says in his letter, so this is a resignation letter to the Prime Minister. |
| 0:49.4 | He's writing to resign from the government. He said he called for the inquiry and |
| 0:53.0 | undertook to resign if he made any finding of bullying whatsoever and he wants to keep his word |
| 0:58.0 | but he then goes on to say, while he feels duty-bound to accept the outcome of the inquiry, |
| 1:03.6 | he wants to flag that it dismissed all but two claims levelled against him and of course we |
| 1:07.6 | are expecting the report to be published which will bring us all declared we don't have it yet |
| 1:12.0 | but on those two findings which were against him and flawed he says that they said a dangerous |
| 1:16.7 | precedent for the conduct of good government. This is on two counts. First, ministers must be able to |
| 1:21.8 | exercise direct oversight with respect to senior officials over critical negotiations and then |
| 1:27.6 | secondly he says ministers must be able to give direct critical feedback on briefings and |
| 1:32.6 | submissions to senior officials in order to set the standards and drive the reform of the |
| 1:36.8 | public expect of us. So I think that you can see that he is disputing the idea that he met the |
| 1:43.6 | threshold for bullying on this you can. So the Dominic Rob defense and of course going to see the |
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