What has got readers talking today? (Picture: Getty)

Today, some Metro readers aren’t exactly surprised by Dominic Raab’s resignation as Deputy Prime Minister after an investigation into allegations of bullying from his party find him guilty of ‘aggressive conduct’.

Raab’s subsequent resignation letter accused the inquiry of setting a low threshold for bullying and he opted not to apologize for the wrong-doing.

One Metro reader thinks Raab’s forced resignation sets a ‘wrong precedent’, another thinks that the bullied civil servants were simply ‘whining’ for no reason?

What do you think?

Let us know in the comments.

Dominic Raab accused the inquiry of encouraging spurious complaints against ministers in his resignation letter (Picture: PA)

Can tory ministers take criticism?

■ Following a bullying inquiry which found him to be ‘insulting’, ‘intimidating’ and ‘aggressive’ towards officials, Dominic Raab has resigned as deputy prime minister and justice minister.

Mr Raab – who argues feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’ and has called British workers ‘among the worst idlers in the world’ – refuses to accept he is at fault and argues that he is a victim of officials hostile to his ‘reforms’. This refusal to accept responsibility is a common characteristic of recent Tory ministers.

In November 2020, a report found that then-home secretary Priti Patel had broken the ministerial code by bullying civil servants. Her defence was that she ‘never intentionally set out to upset anyone’.

Liz Truss is the totally incompetent creature who managed to crash the UK’s economy to the tune of £30billion after just 50 days as prime minister.

Yet she insisted earlier this year that she was brought down by the ‘left-wing economic establishment’.

The current home secretary, Suella Braverman, blames the ‘Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati’ for people causing disruption with protests over looming climate catastrophe.

Mr Raab is the latest in a series of Tory ministers who have an infinite capacity to blame their failures as statesmen and as human beings on anyone but themselves.
Sasha Simic, north London

■ In Dominic Raab’s resignation letter he protested that the bar for bullying had been set too low. If you have to think about where the bar for bullying is, you should be nowhere near leadership, never mind government.
Neil Dance, Birmingham

n Mr Raab’s protestations that he was unfairly treated by the lawyer-led inquiry into his conduct towards civil servants is complete and utter nonsense.

The findings indicate that he not only broke the ministerial code but was also in breach of the late Lord Nolan’s principles of conduct in public life.

The fact that he failed to adhere to the Lord Nolan principles sealed his fate. His arrogance about his fall from grace is astounding!! He is very lucky that he managed to hang on to power for so long.
Alan Jensen, West Hampstead

■ Dominic Raab being forced to resign sets a very wrong precedent. In future no minister will be able to get work done or to implement the government policies.

If a civil servant has different views to the party in power they can resort to bringing allegations against ministers to fulfil their own agenda.
Pritam, London

■n So Dominic Raab has had to resign because of a couple of whining civil servants. Every virtue-signalling, woke, snowflake, bullying Leftie cry-baby in the civil service should be booted out. They serve nobody but themselves and do nothing but follow their own anti-Tory agenda.
Stefan Badham, Portsmouth

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