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Marina Hyde

For all his hardman mantras, Raab forgot rule one: don’t be a massive arse

Dominic Raab leaves BBC Studios in London, 26 May 2019.
‘Train hard, fight easy.’ Dominic Raab leaves BBC Studios in London, 26 May 2019. Photograph: Mark Thomas/Rex/Shutterstock

It’s unfortunate that the epithets “boxing fanatic” and “karate black belt” are so frequently attached to Dominic Raab. When they appear in a news report, these have much the same effect as the words “former nightclub bouncer”. You know the final sentence of said report will simply read: “The trial continues.”

Anyway: the trial continued, until it finally ended this morning with Raab’s eye-bulgingly aggressive resignation letter. How did you enjoy episode 97 of He-Hulk: Attorney at Ministry of Justice? Having been handed the report into Raab’s alleged bullying of staff at three government departments over a number of years, prime minister Rishi Sunak spent a full 24 hours reading it and considering what to do about its findings.

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