It was a full 24 hours before Rishi Sunak picked up the phone to Dominic Raab after both men were handed a 48-page report concluding the deputy prime minister bullied staff with his intimidating and abrasive manner.
The inquiry was given to the prime minister on Thursday morning and journalists had been briefed to expect a swift verdict. But Sunak took his time to digest the findings, which some advisers considered were “more equivocal” than expected, according to a Downing Street source.
