Raab Resigns
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has resigned.
The inquiry into whether he bullied staff has finally been published. Its conclusion? Raab is a bully.
Lewis explores the reports findings and asks what it means for one of his closest allies — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | The Brexit secretary, Dominic Rab, has resigned. |
| 0:17.1 | This is seismic news for Theresa May. |
| 0:20.2 | My name is Dominic Rababe and I'm a Tory. |
| 0:22.6 | I don't support the Human Rights Act and I don't believe in economic and social rights. |
| 0:27.6 | Would you describe yourself as a fairness? |
| 0:29.6 | No, probably not. |
| 0:30.6 | Fairness is what I've been fighting for all my working life. |
| 0:33.6 | We live in an age when the actions of competent leaders and good government |
| 0:36.6 | can and should go a long way to making the world a fair and place. |
| 0:39.3 | There's stuff about me paddleboarding, nonsense. The sea was actually closed. |
| 0:42.3 | So you haven't read the Belfast Agreement in its entirety. |
| 0:45.3 | I haven't sat down and gone from, I've used it as a reference tool. |
| 0:48.3 | Dominic Rabe has been confirmed as the new Justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor and the Deputy Prime Minister. Dominic Rabe has been confirmed as the new Justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor, and the Deputy Prime Minister. |
| 0:56.6 | Dominic Raab has been a big figure in the Conservative governments |
| 1:00.1 | which have dominated politics in this country for the past 13 years. |
| 1:04.9 | At his peak and the country's Nadir, he was even acting Prime Minister, |
| 1:10.0 | whilst Boris Johnson lay in an intensive care ward, |
| 1:13.6 | ravaged by COVID. For the arch-Brexeter, his career is, for now at least, perhaps forever, |
| 1:20.2 | over. Adam Tolly, the KC and lawyer's report into his behaviour as a minister, has been published. |
| 1:28.2 | The findings, |
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