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The months-long investigation into Raab’s behaviour heard evidence from multiple government officials about complaints of bullying at three different departments.
Raab who requested the investigation in November following formal complaints about his behaviour by government officials, said he felt “duty bound” to accept the outcome of the inquiry but also staunchly defended his conduct.
He said the report, which has not yet been publicly released, had concluded he had not once sworn, shouted or physically intimidated anyone in four and a half years, and had dismissed all but two of the claims against him.
Raab said setting the threshold for bullying so low “set a dangerous precedent for the conduct of good government”.
This will “have a chilling effect on those driving change on behalf of your government – and ultimately the British people”, he said in his resignation letter to the prime minister.
Another of Sunak’s senior ministers, Gavin Williamson, was forced to resign in November after bullying allegations, and the prime minister sacked Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi in January after he was found to have broken the ministerial code over his openness about his tax affairs.
Sunak is facing his own investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog into his behaviour over whether he properly declared his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stands to benefit from new government policy.
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