Raab Has Resigned

[sp1814]

Your thoughts?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-raab-report-rishi-sunak-news-b2324028.html?amp

(This report is a bit outdated)

[sp1814]

TCL

Will the report be publish???

I didn’t know we’d get to see it.

[sp1814]

*published

[New Judge]

//…he's a bully and it seems not very bright//

Raab attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham. He went on to study law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jurisprudence. He then pursued further studies at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won the Clive Parry Prize for International Law, and obtained a Master of Laws degree.

After leaving Cambridge, Raab trained professionally at the major City of London law firm Linklaters, completing his mandatory two-year training contract at the firm. Raab qualified as a solicitor in the UK under Linklaters in the year 2000.

Dr Challoner’s is one of the leading grammar schools in the country. You don’t get to go there, or remain there, if you are not very bright. Nobody who is not very bright will be offered a law course at Oxford or a post-graduate position at Cambridge. Linklaters is one of the UK’s leading international law firms. It is one of just five members of the "Magic Circle” of elite London law firms. I couldn’t be sure, but I doubt they take on anybody who is not very bright.

But apart from that, you could be right.

[anneasquith]

Wow, such an educated man.
Alas still a bully .

[THECORBYLOON]

SP, Sky's deputy political editor said earlier they will go through the report line by line once it's published.

[New Judge]

//Alas still a bully .//

Depends on your definition of "bully", Ann. We none of us have seen the report (and I don't know whether or not it will be published) so it's pointless speculating on what form Mr Raab's bullying was said to have taken. It is interesting, though, that 16 of the 18 allegations were dismissed, which suggests to be that the shout of "bully" from some quarters perhaps comes a little too readily.

[ToraToraTora]

//…he's a bully and it seems not very bright// - ah the standard retort of the left! Coming from those who were happy to see Abacus and Cobstello running the country that's hilarious!
So he tore some snowflakes off a strip! so bl33din what they need a rocket up the jacksie!

[Ellipsis]

I wonder, say, since the post-war years, 1945 onwards, how many ministers there have been across Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem governments - and how many have had to be investigated for bullying. Not many as a percentage, I would guess, not even in the current cohort ...

[Ken4155]

So 16 of the 18 complaints didn't meet the threshold, but the two that did were deemed serious enough for him to jump before being pushed.

[Old_Geezer]

Academically bright doesn't necessarily mean also socially/worldlywise bright.

[Old_Geezer]

Good to see gulliver hopes those who bullied Boris while he was trying to deliver on the referendum result should also be brought to heel.

[lankeela]

So he didn't shout or swear or intimidate - there must be some real snowflakes working in those offices because I've worked for bosses who did far worse for minor misdemeanours.

[nicebloke1]

My thoughts sp1814? Just the remains of rotten apples left behind of Boris's government. A GE should see a deep clean of number 10.

[New Judge]

//Academically bright doesn't necessarily mean also socially/worldlywise bright.//

Indeed it doesn't, OG. But I would venture to suggest that Mr Raab is fairly bright in that respect too. I have my own opinions on the manner of these complaints against him but I'll wait to see the details before I commit to them.

[THECORBYLOON]

Whether Rishi Sunak agreed with the outcome of the report or no, having said he would resign if the investigation found evidence of bullying, Raab had no option but to resign.

[Ellipsis]

Well it took him long enough to do it ...

[anneasquith]

If the accusations of being a bully are wrong, why on earth would he resign ?
Oh wait a minute maybe he IS a bully .

[DTCwordfan]

Dominic Raab truly reflects his name anagram 'I am drab icon'.

[THECORBYLOON]

This is the report

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-report-to-the-prime-minister

[sp1814]

I sent a text to my partner that read “Arab has resigned”

Damn Autocorrect.

I’ll be interested to see details of the report, especially as so many incidents didn’t meet the threshold to be considered ‘bullying’ because as I understand it - that hasn’t actually been specified.