Dave Penman, general secretary of the UK’s public service workers’ union (FDA), on Wednesday called for UK Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab to be sacked for allegedly harassing and intimidating civil servants.
«If it were any other employee, he would have already been suspended from employment and pay until everything is resolved,» he said in relation to the investigations opened against Raab to discern what happened.
In this regard, he stressed that this measure – which has the support of Labour and the Liberal Democrats – would help to better protect civil servants, according to information from the newspaper ‘The Guardian’.
However, Raab has denied the accusations as the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, insists on waiting for the conclusions of the investigations carried out by the lawyer Adam Tolley.
The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, have called on Sunak to disseminate the warnings given by the Cabinet against such allegations and to publish any evidence gathered as part of the inquiry.
However, Downing Street denies that the Prime Minister «was aware of the existence of formal complaints against Raab before he was appointed», according to the BBC.
Some civil servants have said they went to work «scared» in Raab’s office when he was foreign minister because he was «very hard on people», whom he «intimidated».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
