Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab is facing a fresh claim of bullying after an anti-Brexit campaigner alleged he launched an \u201cabusive attack\u201d on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gina Miller said Mr Raab, who was also appointed as Justice Secretary by Rishi Sunak, was \u201caggressive and intimidating\u201d during an \u201caggressive encounter\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A source close to Mr Raab, who denies bullying staff, said her account was \u201cbaseless\u201d and \u201ctimed to jump on a political bandwagon and give Gina Miller the publicity she craves\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister remains under pressure over what he knew about Mr Raab\u2019s behaviour when appointing him deputy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Times reported that Cabinet Secretary Simon Case was personally informed of a written complaint against Mr Raab months before his reappointment as Justice Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Miller, who has launched her own political party, said the Tory MP \u201claunched into an abusive attack on me\u201d while in a BBC studio to debate Brexit in 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can\u2019t make up my mind if you\u2019re naive, got too much money or just stupid,\u201d she claimed he told her, in an article for the Independent website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furious<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Raab was \u201cfurious\u201d when she was told by a young man that a car was ready to pick her up, Ms Miller said, adding that he shouted at the man: \u201cGo get me a f****** car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRaab was aggressive and intimidating, and I was bullied and demeaned,\u201d Ms Miller said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis was an aggressive male expressing seemingly misogynistic behaviour. This sort of behaviour is not acceptable from anyone, especially not from a powerful, influential politician.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A source close to Mr Raab responded: \u201cThese are baseless and malicious claims, timed to jump on a political bandwagon and give Gina Miller the publicity she craves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dozens of officials are believed to be involved in the inquiry by senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC which was ordered by Mr Sunak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dave Penman, the leader of the FDA union \u2013 which represents senior civil servants, has said officials have \u201csuffered mental health crises\u201d as a result of Mr Raab\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve spoken to people who are civil servants working and have worked for Dominic Raab, who have suffered mental health crises, have lost their careers essentially because they\u2019ve had to move and change jobs,\u201d Mr Penman told Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Downing Street has only ruled out Mr Sunak being aware of \u201cformal complaints\u201d before appointing Mr Raab, and has not denied he knew about informal allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab is facing a fresh claim of bullying after an anti-Brexit campaigner alleged he launched an \u201cabusive attack\u201d on her. Gina Miller said Mr Raab, who was also appointed as Justice Secretary by Rishi Sunak, was \u201caggressive and intimidating\u201d during an \u201caggressive encounter\u201d. A source close to Mr Raab, who denies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11261,11264,5304,2735,2701,75,9485,3782,13175,7960,11381,7747,11399,7626,6718,685,1196,12634,7407,10419,10776,10634,11137,5913,5612,278,3174,5266,9271,11325,8302,255,6594,12605,7231,594,5140],"class_list":["post-29454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-allegations","tag-attack","tag-bbc","tag-behaviour","tag-brexit","tag-bully","tag-cabinet","tag-car","tag-case","tag-complaint","tag-crises","tag-debate","tag-dominic-raab","tag-downing","tag-downing-street","tag-gina-miller","tag-health","tag-jobs","tag-justice","tag-lawyer","tag-lost","tag-make-up","tag-mental-health","tag-money","tag-mp","tag-prime-minister","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-sky","tag-street","tag-sunak","tag-tory","tag-tory-mp","tag-uk","tag-union","tag-who","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}