PM is loyal towards his former deputy but it is hard to see how Raab’s reputation could have escaped notice
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It took Rishi Sunak hours of agonising until he finally made the call that Dominic Raab could not stay in his job. Even then, it was Raab himself who went public first with his resignation – and a belligerent letter defending himself against the report’s findings of bullying.
So what was playing on the prime minister’s mind in the hours before the sacking, could he have avoided getting to this point – and what does the whole sorry saga tell us about Sunak?
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