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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Miranda Bryant

Ex-mandarin warned Dominic Raab about conduct ‘more than once’

A former civil service mandarin has revealed he had to warn Dominic Raab “more than once” about his conduct as foreign secretary while they were working together.

Simon McDonald said Raab, who was forced to quit as deputy prime minister on Friday after an inquiry found he had bullied civil servants, was a “tough taskmaster” whose “methods did not help him to achieve what he wanted to do”.

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