Is Dominic Raab the ‘Big Jule’ of the Conservative Party?
Dominic Raab: if he’s innocent he’s got nothing to worry about, right?
For those of you who don’t know – and that included me until a few minutes before I started typing this – Big Jule is a gangster in the musical Guys and Dolls who boasts about being arrested 33 times but never convicted. It seems Dominic Raab may be the Tory equivalent.
He is currently accused of bullying civil servants in the Justice Department during his first term in office there, from September 2021 to September this year.
But it’s not the first accusation of bullying against him, as Jolyon Maugham explains in the following Twitter thread. Bear in mind when you’re reading this that these accusations were not proved:
Back in 2011, before the Mail on Sunday became arguably the moat mendacious newspaper in the country, it carried an article about Dominic Raab for which Raab sued it. 🧵
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 13, 2022
The Mail also alleged that Raab's behaviour would have been gravely embarrassing if it had become public and the Tory party instituted a cover up and paid £20,000 in hush money to keep his appalling behaviour secret.
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 13, 2022
The judge refused to help the Mail by busting the confidentiality agreement. And, whether for that reason or another, as we can see from a subsequent Information Commissioner's decision, the Mail had to apologise and withdraw their article. pic.twitter.com/TYfnpLmvPG
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 13, 2022
The same ICO proceedings show that a similar allegation was made about Raab when he was a junior Housing Minister. Those allegations were also denied, albeit in a particularly revolting way. pic.twitter.com/onOVrt0r3r
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 13, 2022
I guess, if you excluded everyone embroiled in sex scandals, ethical or criminal investigations or bullying accusations, there wouldn't be enough Tory MPs to fill the Ministerial posts. That's why they have to keep going back to bottom-feeders like Raab, Braverman and Williamson.
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 13, 2022
For clarity’s sake, let’s be clear that this is not a “no smoke without fire” situation. Raab cannot be said to be a bully just because he has been accused twice before.
But the fact that these accusations were made provides valuable context in which to set the current claims.
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