UK deputy PM Raab resigns over bullying report

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has resigned from the government after an investigation upheld some bullying allegations against him.

The full report into his behaviour found Raab had acted in an “intimidating” and “insulting” manner with civil servants while justice secretary.

He also was found to have described work as “utterly useless” and “woeful” in meetings

And it says he abused power in a way that humiliated staff in a specific case while foreign secretary.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who received the report yesterday, has accepted Raab’s resignation “with great sadness”

Raab had promised to resign if the inquiry found evidence of bullying, but in doing so said it had dismissed all but two claims.

Hitting out at the findings, he said it set a “dangerous precedent for the conduct of good government”

Labour leader Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of weakness, saying he should have sacked Raab first