The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK’s most influential business lobbying group, has become embroiled in a firestorm of claims relating to incidents ranging from harassment to gross sexual misconduct – even rape – first reported by the Guardian.
The allegations, though unproven at this point, are harrowing. Today, the beleaguered organisation also announced that its director general, Tony Danker, will leave with immediate effect, to be replaced by its former chief economist Rain Newton-Smith. Danker was the subject of separate complaints earlier this month, one of which was defined as sexual harassment, and he was not the subject of the sexual misconduct claims most recently reported by the Guardian, but the board says his conduct “fell short of that expected of the director general”.
