Raab Resigns: The key findings of the 47-page bullying report

This is the core document that was released about an hour ago and it is this almost 60

page

report

into Dominic Rob's behavior. It has taken five months to get here. Two complaints were confirmed. The rest were rejected. There are many things that Dominic Robb will have. It was very painful to read, there is a lot to suggest that he does not accept the harassment allegations and it is quite explicit that although there are

findings

that he behaved incorrectly, he does not believe that he did so, even now, that is clear in the document of the letters that have been exchanged and the Telegraph article that has just been published, but ultimately the conclusion is that Dominic Robb no longer holds the position of Prime Minister in depth and Justice Secretary due to the

findings

of this

report

.

Now I'm going to take you, I'm going to explain to you as quickly as possible some of the key bits that we've managed to find in the last half hour or so, so we're just going to go over various bits and it was uh and this document really talks about um uh happens. for excessive details Adam Tully spoke to Rob uh in which Dominic Robb admitted that, in his own words, he was inquisitorial, direct, impatient and annoying, so Dominic Robertson admitted to some behaviors that he believes are absolutely Okay, clearly what What you want to do is argue that what's going on here are different interpretations of behavior, and that, but as you get into the report, you can see here that the views differed and that was the accurate one. nature of the way Dominic Rob liked to conduct uh uh uh his job they would like to do business with his officials who caused, in the words of Adam Tully, distress uh maybe even harmed the health of the people who worked around him uh Dominic Robert said they were my exacting standards.

Adam Tolley doesn't take his side on several counts, but this paragraph gives you an idea of ​​the kind of things we're dealing with, so he thinks Dominic Robb thinks things are frustrating since he works within the Ministry of Justice, but here are the kind of demands you are making. He prefers to receive documents in an established format in order to be able to quickly assimilate the information in question if this job is not if in the course of a meeting an attendee does not answer a question in the way that he considers direct and direct, in the opinion of the Prime Minister , the Deputy Prime Minister is likely to interrupt one of the The key question in relation to some of the complaints is whether the debt Prime Minister's style of behavior in a meeting and particularly when frustrated goes beyond what would normally be considered acceptable and that's where we end up with a division.

Robb says it was acceptable Adam Tully says he wasn't acceptable, she finally quit his job, but this is a conversation Sam won't end today. He has a long way to go as different people have different views on what happens in the workplace. and different approaches to it, he says he, as part of that as we go through this report, you come across extraordinary paragraphs, take this one, it's about the use of physical gestures. I heard a lot of evidence about the depth of the Prime Minister's use of physical gestures in communication at the most extreme and uh and that it would have been unacceptable this was expressed as extending his hand directly towards another person's face with a view to making Another example of this is an accusation of hitting a table hard to make a point at the top end of the spectrum, which would be considered acceptable.

He used defensive gestures to suggest that a person should refrain from speaking further, so this is an unacceptable example of Dominic Ross' behavior at Adam Toller. The view is extending your hand directly toward another person's face with the goal of making them stop talking so that everyone at home can see if they think that is acceptable or unacceptable. Adam Tully says in the workplace that's unacceptable uh Dominic. Robb, you don't seem to agree, but let's look at some of the things that happened when Dominic Robert's Foreign Secretary spoke later in the report and there was an incident when he was at the Foreign Office and he had formed an opinion adverse opinion about the way his officials were carrying out their work on a particular project and he does not say what the project is, but there was something, the deputy prime minister, the front secretary, was not happy. with um as part of the process towards and the implementation of a management election uh he uh acted in a manner that was intimidating in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive uh continues uh in the context of a workplace meeting his conduct as well involved an abuse or misuse of power with the aim of humiliating and undermining, in particular, went beyond what was reasonably necessary to give effect to its decision and introduce a punitive element; his contact was bound to be experienced as debilitating or humiliating to the person affected and then it was experience, so that's the kind of core of the kind of accusation that is found in parts of this report, basically, he was humiliating the staff, undermining their trust, he would say he was following exacting standards and was trying to maintain an efficient workplace to get things done, but Adam Tolley says he undermined and humiliated public officials who were working with him and said he should have been aware of this Dominant Rob does not agree that this was

bullying

, but should have done so according to that report, if we continue, we can see that in one case it had a significant adverse effect on a particular individual, in one complaint, which was took seriously, the Deputy Prime Minister's conduct was a form of intimidating behavior in the sense of conveying an unspecified threat of discipline, so the accusation exists, if you don't do things the way I like, you will face some type of disciplinary sanction and basically what you have there is Adam Tolley. saying that he should have realized that the threat came through basically Dominic Rob was seen saying yes you know you will breach the civil service code if you continue to act like that, basically Adam is Tully saying that kind of way of acting was unacceptable, Let's see the following.

At times, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Robert takes the strong view that officials should have been prepared in advance to answer his questions at a meeting and in the event that he is unable to do so, he offers a largely unstructured critique on the banner, so you don't come to my meetings and you're going to get some kind of roast, you know, Dominic Rob would say it's necessary to ensure that public officials. come prepared to a meeting, it's perfectly fair to get angry if the people who work for you aren't prepared to answer the questions you think of, uh and uh, one of the things that the Deputy Prime Minister used to do, it would seem in absentia uh would be to complain. of what he would call basic information or we continue with the basics that you do not have The basics the public dissemination of a comment of this type where others are present are not present or may not be well positioned to judge whether the criticism is well founded, It is likely that the person to whom the comment is directed will experience it as unfair personal criticism and that some people will, this is again where this whole issue moves away from a matter of law and actually comes back in terms of politics if someone is the head of an organization standing there or sitting there is okay, look, you haven't done any homework, you haven't done the basics, you don't have the basics.

The information I want is that harassment is harassment, you don't know, this is something that has ultimately resulted in Dominic Rob losing his job, but everyone at home will have their own opinion on what they think constitutes harassment, what is acceptable in work place. and what was happening, here we go, this is, this is from the conclusions that Adam Tully says. Overall, I conclude that Dominic Rod's conduct during the period in which he was Secretary of State for Justice was at times abrasive. Do we think that is acceptable or is it unacceptable that everyone has an opinion on this and since your personal style is intimidating or insulting to people but you did not intend to do so, your conduct was nevertheless not abusive in the sense of behavior that was intentional and specifically directed, so there's something, uh, there's something. limit to the adverse judgment that Adam Tully is willing to make, he says he is not abusive, he has been able to regulate this level of aggression since the investigation was announced, so he has improved his behavior in the last five months, but Dominic Raab should have modified his approach before, particularly after two of my senior officials in Whitehall took him aside and said: look, you have to treat people better, do you regret what you did right?

He says he hasn't offered any apology since he doesn't accept anything, he was wrong, so I think that's where you see the difference between his point of view and the lawyers and you can see how this really falls apart and will end up being a topic of conversation for a long time. some time. Then towards the end of the conclusions it makes more sense that Dominic Raab acted in an intimidating manner, going beyond what was necessary to provide critical feedback, making non-constructive critical comments about the quality of the work done and the things he wanted . about the basics so you have a general idea of ​​what we are talking about