So we’ll be interested to see if Conservative MPs vote for our amendment.īut more broadly, of course, we don’t think this legislation is going to fix the problem. We believe there should be a duty upon the home secretary to find those terror suspects and deport them immediately. We don’t think that this illegal migration bill is going to resolve the problems, although we have put down amendments around those who have come to the UK via the right routes, and the channel crossings and terrorist suspects. Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary, has said on the Sky News Sophy Ridge show that Conservatives are more interested in headlines than solving any issues with the migration system. We would have wasted two weeks and got the same outcome.” Those involved in the No 10 discussions deny there was a “rearguard action” on Raab’s behalf but a source admitted: “People were laying out options and testing them, working out where they would lead.”Ī source said: “The bar to be in breach of the ministerial code is actually lower than being found guilty of bullying, so even if time had been taken over it, Raab would still have been found to have broken the code. It is understood that concerns were raised that if Raab went, it could lead to complaints against other ministers. They discussed ways to rescue his career but concluded his own promise to resign if any complaints were upheld made it impossible. Rishi Sunak’s senior advisers wanted to save Dominic Raab’s job, fearing that if it was accepted he had bullied staff there would be complaints against other cabinet ministers.

Caroline Wheeler, political editor at the Sunday Times, had this to report about the Dominic Raab bullying claims this morning, writing:

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