UK political turbulence | As it happened | Oliver Dowden named new UK deputy PM after Raab resignation

In an interview with BBC, Raab said, "I resigned from cabinet today because I said I would if there was any adverse findings from this inquiry. I'm true to my word, politicians should be but I do think it sets a very dangerous precedent."

"If you look at the Tolley Report it dismissed almost all of the claims against me. It found I've never once in four and a half years lost my temper swore and shouted and things of that nature."

The UK government has announced that lawmaker Alex Chalk is appointed as the country's new justice minister.

The UK government has named Oliver Dowden as the deputy prime minister. As per Reuters, Dowden currently serves as cabinet office minister in the Sunak government and was previously the chairman of the Conservative Party but had resigned from the post last June after two crushing by-election defeats for the party.

"I find that the DPM did not intend by the conduct described to upset or humiliate. He was typically so focused on what he regards as his desired outcome and how – as he saw it - to achieve that outcome effectively that he did not always have in mind the impact of his approach at the level of the individual who was affected by it."

"The DPM did not target anyone for a specific type of treatment. On the contrary, he appears to have adopted the same style throughout (at least until the commencement of the investigation). However, he ought to have realised earlier that some individuals would find it difficult to cope with his style and should have adjusted his behaviour accordingly."

“The DPM referred to the Civil Service Code in a way which could reasonably have been understood as suggesting that those involved had acted in breach of the Civil Service Code (and so would have been in breach of their contracts of employment).”

“This had a significant adverse effect on a particular individual (a different person from the individual who made the FCDO Complaint), who took it seriously. The DPM’s conduct was a form of intimidating behaviour, in the sense of conveying a threat of unspecified disciplinary action. He did not target any individual, nor intend to threaten anyone with disciplinary action.“

“However, he ought to have realised that referring in this way to the Civil Service Code could have been understood as such a threat.”

"As you say, you had - rightly - undertaken to resign if the report made any finding of bullying whatsoever. You have kept your word. But it is clear that there have been shortcomings in the historic process that have negatively affected everyone involved. We should learn from this how to better handle such matters in future."

British PM Rishi Sunak has responded to Raab's resignation letter. The PM thanked raab for his leadership during the pandemic. 

"You provided the country... with reassurance and leadership at a moment of profound national concern... I was struck by the collegiate way in which you handled the most difficult of challenges."

"The DPM exercised his executive judgment in a particular way, which he was entitled to do as a form of legitimate management choice. The DPM had formed an adverse view as to the way in which civil servants had acted in relation to an ongoing work project. For the purpose of analysis in this report, I have assumed (without so concluding) that the DPM was entitled to form an adverse view, although I should also record that even on this premise there were no grounds for disciplinary action."

"However, as part of the process towards and implementation of this management choice he acted in a way which was intimidating, in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive in the context of a workplace meeting." 

"His conduct also involved an abuse or misuse of power in a way that undermines or humiliates. In particular, he went beyond what was reasonably necessary in order to give effect to his decision and introduced a punitive element. His conduct was bound to be experienced as undermining or humiliating by the affected individual, and it was so experienced. I infer that the DPM must have been aware of this effect; at the very least, he ought reasonably to have been so aware." 

"The DPM’s conduct cannot be characterised as offensive, malicious or insulting. It was experienced as intimidating, in the sense of excessively demanding. I could not make a finding as to whether it was in fact intimidating in this sense. There was no evidence to suggest any abuse or misuse of power," writes Adam Tolley KC in his report.

Writing for Telegraph, Dominic Raab has now referred to the inquiry as "the Kafkaesque saga I endured," and said, "if that is now the threshold for bullying in government, it is the people of this country who will pay the price."

"Kafkaesque," as per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, relates to something "suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings," or as having "a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality."

"In setting the threshold for bullying so low, this inquiry has set a dangerous precedent. It will encourage spurious complaints against Ministers, and have a chilling effect on those driving change on behalf of your government - and ultimately the British people," said Raab in his resignation to UK PM Rishi Sunak.

Dominic Raab, who was the United Kingdom's justice secretary as well as deputy prime minister, has been accused of victimising his civil servants in three different government departments. 

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the inquiry looking into his workplace behaviour "sets a dangerous precedent," which will "paralyse the ability of ministers to deliver for the British people"