Raab has to go’ as 27 staff sign a single bullying claim

Dominic Raab should quit or be fired, a cabinet minister has said, as it emerged that more civil servants than previously thought are part of the investigation into allegations he bullied staff.Dominic Raab should quit or be fired, a cabinet minister has said, as it emerged that more civil servants than previously thought are part of the investigation into allegations he bullied staff.

- ADAM FORREST

The deputy prime minister is under growing pressure after top lawyer Gina Miller told The Independent that Mr Raab had called her stupid” during an aggressive” encounter, while BBC comedian Nish Kumar accused him of racial insensitivity.

The justice secretary is also said to be the focus of a single complaint based on the concerns of 27 civil servants at the Ministry of Justice MoJ) as part of the official investigation by Adam Tolley KC. More than two dozen staff are represented” by a memo stating that some were forced to leave work for extended periods” because of Mr Raab, according to The Observer.

“The combination of the pressure of work and unreasonable deadlines has had such an impact on some colleagues’ mental and physical health that they have visited their GPs, and some have subsequently been signed off work for extended periods of time,” the joint complaint stated.