‘Bullied’ former Home Office boss drops case against Patel in return for huge payout of YOUR cash
Sir Philip Rutnam: rather than prove claims of bullying against him – and demonstrate the culture of bullying allegedly created by Priti Patel in the Home Office – he’s going to take the money and run.
Pathetic.
The former Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam, has stabbed his fellow civil servants in the back by coming to a settlement of his ‘unfair dismissal’ case against Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Rutnam had claimed he had been the victim of a “vicious and orchestrated” briefing campaign after trying to get Ms Patel to change her bullying behaviour.
His case was due to be heard by an employment tribunal in September – which seems a long wait, considering he quit in February last year.
But now it isn’t going to happen because he has opted to take Patel’s thirty pieces of silver instead – or rather, £340,000 plus his legal costs.
And when I say “Patel’s” money, I mean public money because of course she wouldn’t dream of paying him anything herself.
This is not an appropriate use of public funds.
Labour’s shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said:
Taxpayers will be appalled at having to pick up the bill for the home secretary’s unacceptable behaviour.
(Strictly speaking, he’s not right. The government creates money to cover its expenditure. It taxes us to give that money its value. But he’s right that we should not expect public money to be used to pay for the indiscretions of Tory ministers.)
The government is saying it does not accept liability for the manner of Rutnam’s departure from his job.
If that’s true, then why pay a “substantial” amount to settle the case?
Source: Philip Rutnam: Ex-Home Office boss settles unfair dismissal case – BBC News
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