Government insiders believe Dominic Raab is fighting for his political survival, with one describing him as “toast”
In her interview with Times Radio this morning, Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, was asked about reports that teachers are so badly paid they need to use food banks. In response, she said it was “not credible” to think that teachers were relying on them regularly. She said:
It’s not credible that people are using them every day, or every week, week in, week out.
The Trussell trust itself says that only 15% of people need more than three food vouchers a year, and they’re normally people who then get flagged …
My colleagues Pippa Crerar and Jamie Grierson in the Guardian revealed that all three Whitehall mandarins who worked with Raab while he was holding cabinet positions have now been interviewed by the official inquiry into his alleged bullying.
