Dominic Raab quitting means no Cabinet minister is now safe – watch out, Suella Braverman!
WATCH out, Suella Braverman! You’re next.
If the Blob can destroy a Deputy Prime Minister for ticking off an unelected mandarin, nobody is safe — especially a Home Secretary at war against illegal immigration.
These chinless wonders claim Mr Raab was sometimes “intimidating, “curt” or “angry”. In other words, a bully.
Raab insists he was doing his job.
Nobody likes being shouted at, but the charge of bullying is too easily made.
There is no legal definition. If it means an occasional telling-off, then we have all been victims — or offenders.
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Dominic Raab had to go because “whistleblowers” decided to make their complaints official, thereby perhaps exposing themselves to retaliation.
This is the ducking-stool version of woke-place justice, with Left-wing public sector unions, the Labour Party and the BBC in hot pursuit.
Once a target is identified, there is no way off the hook.
Tragically, Raab’s real crime — and the crime of every Tory minister — was to have been elected on a pledge to “get Brexit done”.
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This is fiercely opposed by civil servants, especially in the Foreign Office where Raab once served, and the Justice department where he administered the fine points of Brexit law.
He was picked for his mastery of detail and his readiness to take on entrenched resistance.
There are many ways a reluctant Blob can drag its feet, raise roadblocks or sabotage the will of a democratically elected minister.
One senior figure claimed he was given a roasting for seeking to allow Spanish authorities too much access to disputed Gibraltar.
Raab was simply safeguarding UK interests.
He might have been “curt” but so he should have been.
The ex-Deputy PM, his political career in ruins, is rightly furious.
He warns the threshold for bullying claims is too low, too vague and now exposes other ministers to spurious complaints.
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Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer is trying to put Rishi Sunak in the ducking stool for appointing Raab in the first place.
This won’t wash. No Cabinet minister is now safe thanks to these trumped-up charges against a minister who was simply doing his job.