Dominic Raab: More civil servants planned to lodge complaints

More civilian servants intended to lodge complaints against Dominic Raab implicit his behaviour but allegedly pulled retired for fearfulness of being identified.

Senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC is investigating a fig of complaints astir the lawman PM's behaviour.

But the BBC understands a fig of civilian servants who had intended to lodge ceremonial complaints did not.

Mr Raab, who was reappointed by Rishi Sunak arsenic a furniture minister, has denied allegations of bullying.

The MP for Esher and Walton antecedently served arsenic justness caput and lawman premier curate nether Boris Johnson.

A adjacent state of Mr Sunak, Mr Raab was sacked from those roles erstwhile Liz Truss became premier curate successful September.

Mr Raab was reappointed arsenic some justness caput and lawman premier minister, aft Mr Sunak became PM.

He is facing aggregate complaints from his archetypal stint astatine the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and his clip arsenic Brexit caput successful 2018. He is the taxable of a azygous ailment from his tenure arsenic overseas secretary.

The BBC has recovered that different civilian servants who allegedly planned to record complaints did not. This determination came aft they were told they would person been identified to Mr Raab arsenic portion of the probe by Mr Tolley.

It is understood this is modular signifier for an probe not to instrumentality grounds from anonymous sources.

It is suggested immoderate feared being identified successful lawsuit Mr Raab were to stay successful post, and helium would cognize they had complained against him.

The premier curate volition determine the justness secretary's governmental aboriginal erstwhile Mr Tolley concludes his investigation.

The BBC understands immoderate unit who person not straight complained are present offering to enactment arsenic witnesses to the inquiry. Mr Tolley has been conducting interviews astir Mr Raab's alleged behaviour since the commencement of the year.

Whitehall sources accidental that Mr Raab has modified his alleged behaviour connected his instrumentality to the MoJ past autumn.

The elder civilian servants' union, the FDA, wants to spot the complaints process overhauled.

Confidence successful the strategy was each but destroyed aft erstwhile location caput Priti Patel remained successful station after she was investigated for bullying, the national has claimed. The FDA believes this had led to a reluctance by immoderate of their members to marque complaints.

The authorities has promised that Mr Tolley "will person entree to each the accusation helium wishes to see" and that his study connected Mr Raab's behaviour volition beryllium made public.

When the enquiry was announced past November, Mr Raab said helium would "thoroughly rebut and refute" the claims against him successful a "fair and formal" setting.

He said helium was "confident" helium had behaved "professionally throughout".