Rishi Sunak's deputy is braced for the outcome of a report that could seal his political fate.
"The investigation should be completed as swiftly as possible," the terms of reference stated, almost 150 days ago."The independent investigator will report to the prime minister on his investigation. As set out in the Ministerial Code, the prime minister is the ultimate judge of the standards of behaviour expected of a minister and the appropriate consequences of a breach of those standards. The report of the investigation will be made public.
In other words, the future of Mr Sunak's deputy, the man who loyally and publicly campaigned for him to be prime minister until the very point of his defeat by Liz Truss in last summer's leadership election, has hung over them both for almost as long as Mr Sunak has been in 10 Downing Street. "How does he go home to his wife and kids when there have been so many headlines about him about this stuff?" another said. "To his credit, mind you, he manages to. He's been getting on with things."Few dispute he is quite the taskmaster to work for, but say that is a million miles from him being a bully. All this has already proved politically and financially costly to Mr Raab.
What plans might the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case have to move people about in Whitehall to deal with this scenario?The question that will immediately be put to the prime minister is why did you appoint this loyal supporter in the first place?whether he had informal warnings about Mr Raab's behaviour before bringing him back into the cabinet.Shortly afterwards, complaints were made and the independent investigation was set up.
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