Chris Mason: Raab and Sunak both face moment of jeopardy

The judgement telephone is binary: support him, oregon sack him.

The premier curate has seen the study from Adam Tolley KC. The lawman premier curate has too.

Rishi Sunak and Dominic Raab did not talk connected Thursday.

Mr Raab has said for immoderate clip that helium would resign if it was concluded helium was a bully. But Mr Raab has not resigned.

It seems reasonable, therefore, to reason the lawman premier curate does not deliberation the grounds successful the study amounts to bullying.

So the determination implicit his aboriginal is down to the premier minister.

The authorities had created an anticipation Mr Sunak's verdict would beryllium quick.

Those participants successful this process had been told to expect its result connected Thursday, but it didn't come.

That inquiry, by his standards advisor Sir Alex Allan, concluded Ms Patel had breached the Ministerial Code, but Mr Johnson ignored it.

Ms Patel carried on. Sir Alex resigned.

Talking to america connected BBC Newscast, Sir Alex said of Rishi Sunak's quandary now: "You tin understand, if it's a immense report, the premier curate whitethorn privation clip to see it. But arsenic acold arsenic I tin spot it astir apt cannot beryllium wholly wide cut. Otherwise helium would person travel retired with a determination 1 mode oregon the other."

But the waiting is having consequences.

Mr Raab knows the names of those successful his department, the Ministry of Justice, who were complainants.

Those complainants fearfulness helium mightiness support his job.

"The premier minister's prevarication makes it consciousness much apt that the full thing, the past 5 months of agony for Raab's subordinates, volition extremity successful a whitewash," idiosyncratic who advised Mr Raab successful a elder relation successful 1 section told the BBC.

Are resignations imaginable from the civilian work if Mr Raab keeps his job?

"I deliberation so," Dave Penman of the civilian servants' national the FDA said.

But let's not get up of ourselves.

Very fewer radical person seen Adam Tolley's report, and adjacent to thing has leaked from it.

We should reserve judgement until we spot it.

Mr Sunak faces turbulence immoderate helium decides to do.

Sack the antheral who loyally campaigned for him to go premier curate and make a large vacancy astatine the apical of authorities and a large question astir whether helium should person appointed him successful the archetypal place.

Keep him and look imaginable mutiny wrong the Ministry of Justice and the imaginable of alleged victims of Mr Raab's behaviour resigning, demanding a determination and possibly talking publicly.

"Either result gives him a absorption problem," 1 elder Conservative MP reflected to me.

A person of Mr Raab told maine the lawman premier curate has agelong been "moderately optimistic" the study mightiness beryllium little than wide cut.

Mr Raab is facing a infinitesimal of jeopardy implicit his job.

Rishi Sunak is facing a infinitesimal of jeopardy implicit his judgement.