The prime minister’s logic is clear: he doesn’t want the drumbeat of scandal to doom his government, as it did his predecessor’s
- Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome
Dominic Raab is obviously furious about his latest departure from government. If his letter of resignation didn’t make that clear enough, a subsequent opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph spelled out his complaints about both the process and the outcome.
Does Rishi Sunak agree? Reading between the lines of his own letter, he might. It is long on praise for the outgoing justice secretary; and decidedly brief on the circumstances that precipitated his resignation. Yet, ultimately, both men have to shoulder the lion’s share of the responsibility.
Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome
