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Staunton also said Badenoch told him he was being removed from his job in January because someone had to “take the rap” for the affair.
“The reality is my department has done everything it can to speed up compensation payments to victims,” she said. And she said rather than failing to apologise for the way he found out he had lost his job she had been at “great pains to make my concerns about his conduct private”.“He has chosen to spread a series of falsehoods, provide made up anecdotes to journalists and leak discussions held in confidence,” she said.
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