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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Isaac

Revealed: new claims of sexual misconduct and ‘toxic culture’ at CBI

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The number and range of the claims have plunged the CBI, which calls itself the UK’s ‘premier business organisation’, into turmoil. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

More than a dozen women claim to have been victims of various forms of sexual misconduct by senior figures at the Confederation of British Industry, including one who alleges she was raped at a staff party on a boat on the River Thames.

The women, who all work at the CBI or have worked there in recent years, approached the Guardian with fresh concerns about what they describe as a toxic culture at Britain’s most influential business lobbying organisation.

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