Committed Brexiteer had complicated relationship with EU and Irish goverment officials
Dominic Raab has resigned as the UK’s deputy prime minister and from Rishi Sunak’s cabinet following the conclusion of an inquiry into bullying allegations. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty ImagesDominic Raab’s political career may have been clouded over the last six months as an investigation into allegations of bullying by him continued.
Raab, who styles himself as a “no nonsense” character, was an enthusiastic Leave campaigner in the 2016 Brexit referendum and was initially overlooked by Theresa May when she took over. After a short stint as a housing minister she then elevated him to Brexit secretary in 2018 to replace his old mentor, Davis, who resigned in protest at May’s proposed deal with the EU. May gave Raab a leading role in the negotiations with Europe, until he also resigned in protest four months later.
Raab is seen as a loyalist of Boris Johnson, despite running against him in the 2019 leadership contest. Johnson made him deputy prime minister and foreign secretary, thrusting him back into the centre of then-fraught talks with Brussels, where he was nicknamed the “Turnip”, a play on the Dutch word for the vegetable that sounds like his surname.
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