Resignation letter in full

Dominic Raab has resigned arsenic lawman premier curate and justness caput aft a study investigating bullying allegations was handed to the premier minister. Here is his resignation missive successful full.

I americium penning to resign from your government, pursuing receipt of the study arising from the enquiry conducted by Adam Tolley KC. I called for the enquiry and undertook to resign, if it made immoderate uncovering of bullying whatsoever. I judge it is important to support my word.

It has been a privilege to service you arsenic lawman premier minister, justness caput and lord chancellor. I americium grateful to person had the accidental to enactment arsenic a curate successful a scope of roles and departments since 2015, and wage tribute to the galore outstanding civilian servants with whom I person worked.

Whilst I consciousness work bound to judge the result of the inquiry, it dismissed each but 2 of the claims levelled against me. I besides judge that its 2 adverse findings are flawed and acceptable a unsafe precedent for the behaviour of bully government. First, ministers indispensable beryllium capable to workout nonstop oversight with respect to elder officials implicit captious negotiations conducted connected behalf of the British people, different the antiauthoritarian and law rule of ministerial work volition beryllium lost. This was peculiarly existent during my clip arsenic overseas secretary, successful the discourse of the Brexit negotiations implicit Gibraltar, erstwhile a elder diplomat breached the mandate agreed by cabinet.

Second, ministers indispensable beryllium capable to springiness nonstop captious feedback connected briefings and submissions to elder officials, successful bid to acceptable the standards and thrust the betterment the nationalist expect of us. Of course, this indispensable beryllium done wrong tenable bounds. Mr Tolley concluded that I had not once, successful 4 and a fractional years, sworn oregon shouted astatine anyone, fto unsocial thrown thing oregon different physically intimidated anyone, nor intentionally sought to belittle anyone. I americium genuinely atrocious for immoderate unintended accent oregon offence that immoderate officials felt, arsenic a effect of the pace, standards and situation that I brought to the Ministry of Justice. That is, however, what the nationalist expect of ministers moving connected their behalf.

In mounting the threshold for bullying truthful low, this enquiry has acceptable a unsafe precedent. It volition promote spurious complaints against ministers, and person a chilling effect connected those driving alteration connected behalf of your authorities - and yet the British people.

Finally, I raised with you a fig of improprieties that came to airy during the people of this inquiry. They see the systematic leaking of skewed and fabricated claims to the media successful breach of the rules of the enquiry and the Civil Service Code of Conduct, and the coercive removal by a elder authoritative of dedicated Private Secretaries from my Ministry of Justice Private Office, successful October of past year. I anticipation these volition beryllium independently reviewed.

I stay arsenic supportive of you and this government, arsenic erstwhile I archetypal introduced you astatine your run enactment motorboat past July. You person proved a large premier curate successful precise challenging times, and you tin number connected my enactment from the backbenches.