The despotic and terrorising 19th-century Victorian mill owner in many 21st century Conservative ministers rears its ugly head in bully boy Dominic Raab.
It isn’t only the persecution of civil servants, although the independent report is damning on the vindictive former Deputy Prime Minister’s vile behaviour at the Foreign Office and in the Ministry of Justice.
From resisting food for hungry pupils during school holidays to smearing key workers fighting to protect living standards from soaring prices, or demonising poor households needing the welfare state to desperate refugees risking their lives to cross the Channel, hostility is the hallmark of 2023’s Tories.
