british union FDAwhich represents the senior civil servants in the UKhas requested this Saturday a official investigation into possible workplace bullying of the ministers towards their staff, after the resignation due to this fact of the deputy prime minister and head of Justice, Dominic Raab.
Raab left his post on Friday after the publication of a legal brief commissioned in November by the prime minister, Rishi Sunakwho backs up various harassment allegations against him when he was Brexit, Foreign and Justice Minister.
In addition to the investigation into the conduct of politicians, FDA Secretary General, Dave Penmanhas asked Sunak to order a review of the complaints procedure against them.
A recent union report reveals that one in six senior public officials has witnessed misconduct by ministers in the last 12 months, indicated in a statement.
According to Penman, this shows that “Raab is not a single bad apple and that there is a broader problem with ministerial bullying than the prime minister wants to admit.”
Speaking to spoke 4 of the BBCthe union leader also criticized that Raab is laying ‘a dangerous precedent’ blaming his fate on what he described as “a group of activist officials” who, according to him, were opposed to his program of action.
Although he resigned because he had agreed to accept the findings of attorney Adam Tolley, Dominic Raab maintains that his conduct was not harassment. He has blamed officials with alleged political motivation for the complaints and warned that penalizing a heavy-handed style will undermine the work of the Government.
“I requested the investigation and I promised to resign if it contained any findings of ‘bullying‘. I think it is important to keep my word, ”he wrote in his resignation letter.
Despite everything, Raab considers that “by setting such a low bar for harassment, this investigation sets a dangerous precedent”.
In his opinion, it will encourage “spurious complaints against ministers” and will have a pernicious effect on “those who drive change” in the Sunak government.
Although the report has not yet been made public, Raab says the investigation “has ruled out all but two of the allegations (a total of eight),” and that those two “contained errors.”
And he also considers that ministers must have the capacity to give “critical direct answers” to his subordinates.
Despite the fact that some Conservative MPs have come to the defense of the former Justice Minister and judge that Tolley’s report does not evidence harassment, several former and current senior British officials have publicly stated that they had already warned him that his behavior was not acceptable.
Raab’s resignation is a strong political blow to the prime minister, who had his support from the first moment he launched his candidacy to lead the Conservative Party.
Sunak is now expected to carry out a small ministerial reshuffle, while doubts persist as to whether he was aware of the complaints against his ally before appointing him again as head of Justice on October 25. the legislator alex chalk He was appointed as the new Minister of Justice.
(With information from EFE)
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