First, there were the CBI allegations. “Everyone should be bullied once in their lifetime,” an employee was allegedly told during a “campaign of verbal abuse” at the organisation.
There was Dominic Raab’s indignant resignation – he had rashly promised in advance to accept the findings of a bullying inquiry against him, only to find that in the event he didn’t accept them at all. And now new bullying allegations are surfacing, this time around the health secretary, Steve Barclay.