Dominic Raab leaving his home in Esher, Surrey, yesterday after his resignation from the cabinetDominic Raab was brought down by his own actions, not “civil service activism”, a former permanent secretary who gave evidence against him has said. Lord McDonald of Salford, who served as the leading civil servant in the Foreign Office during Raab’s tenure as foreign secretary, said he had “witnessed somebody whose methods did not help him to achieve what he wanted to do”. SponsoredThe peer confirmed he had spoken to Adam Tolley KC, the barrister who compiled the report into bullying allegations against Raab, to provide “background context” to support the complaints made by others. He also repeated previous claims that he had spoken to Raab about his behaviour towards staff “more than once” but that his response was to “deflect” and “dispute the

Source: The Times April 22, 2023 06:11 UTC