I know British politicians are a bit rubbish. Particularly the Tories.
But the flak Dominic Raab is getting is OTT.
Imagine you are on holiday with your family. You are in the sort of job where your Employer regularly has emergencies.
Your employer doesn't provide anyone to cover for you while on holiday. There is an emergency that requires a 3rd Party to be contacted. Even though you are on holiday, you take time to brief someone under you to make the relevant phone call. Turns out the person didn't.
Would you be happy to have people calling for you to be sacked?
Dominic Raab ‘throws toys out of the pram’ after demotion, but gets Deputy Prime Minister sweetener
Dominic Raab was on Wednesday demoted from Foreign Secretary just weeks after facing criticism for remaining on holiday as Kabul fell to the Taliban.
He was removed from one of the great offices of state to become Justice Secretary, a more junior position in the Cabinet, but was awarded the new title Deputy Prime Minister to sweeten the downward move.
The 47-year-old MP held two crunch meetings with Boris Johnson before accepting his fate. Talks that started in the Prime Minister’s Commons office broke up and then re-commenced in Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Raab was accused of “throwing toys out of pram” about the switch, while allies claimed he had felt aggrieved at being blamed for missteps in the Foreign Office’s handling of the emergency airlift out of Afghanistan last month.
He attempted to put a brave face on the move as he left No 10, even winking at a reporter as he passed, but his smile was said to have fallen as he exited Downing Street.
A planned appearance at the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs on Wednesday evening was subsequently cancelled.
His demotion followed weeks of intense scrutiny and speculation about his future, after it emerged he had not spoken to his Afghan or Pakistani counterparts in the months leading up to the Taliban’s surge to power in Afghanistan.
I know British politicians are a bit rubbish. Particularly the Tories.
But the flak Dominic Raab is getting is OTT.
Imagine you are on holiday with your family. You are in the sort of job where your Employer regularly has emergencies.
Your employer doesn't provide anyone to cover for you while on holiday. There is an emergency that requires a 3rd Party to be contacted. Even though you are on holiday, you take time to brief someone under you to make the relevant phone call. Turns out the person didn't.
Would you be happy to have people calling for you to be sacked?
‘People were left to the Taliban who could have been saved’: Ministers’ fury that, with four out of five working from home, civil servants couldn't access secret documents and wasted critical days during Afghan exit as UK citizens
The 'work from home' culture (stock inset) in Whitehall left Britons at the mercy of the Taliban (right) in Afghanistan, senior Cabinet Ministers have told The Mail on Sunday. Civil servants away from their desks could not read vital documents about UK citizens trying to flee the murderous regime, hampering their escape. 'People were left to the Taliban who could have been saved,' the Minister said, adding that the Government had 'lost a week' in the rescue mission because of the 'culture of absenteeism' in Whitehall. The UK failed to airlift hundreds of Britons out of Afghanistan before Western troops withdrew on August 28. Vital time was lost in Britain because sensitive documents can only be read in Government offices for security reasons - but as many as four out of five officials were working from home. The revelation comes after Boris Johnson last week urged workers to get back to the office or risk being 'gossiped about'.
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Dominic Raab was on Wednesday demoted from Foreign Secretary just weeks after facing criticism for remaining on holiday as Kabul fell to the Taliban.
He was removed from one of the great offices of state to become Justice Secretary, a more junior position in the Cabinet, but was awarded the new title Deputy Prime Minister to sweeten the downward move.
The 47-year-old MP held two crunch meetings with Boris Johnson before accepting his fate. Talks that started in the Prime Minister’s Commons office broke up and then re-commenced in Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Raab was accused of “throwing toys out of pram” about the switch, while allies claimed he had felt aggrieved at being blamed for missteps in the Foreign Office’s handling of the emergency airlift out of Afghanistan last month.
He attempted to put a brave face on the move as he left No 10, even winking at a reporter as he passed, but his smile was said to have fallen as he exited Downing Street.
A planned appearance at the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs on Wednesday evening was subsequently cancelled.
His demotion followed weeks of intense scrutiny and speculation about his future, after it emerged he had not spoken to his Afghan or Pakistani counterparts in the months leading up to the Taliban’s surge to power in Afghanistan.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/dominic-raab-throws-toys-out-of-the-pram-after-demotion-but-gets-deputy-prime-minister-sweetener/ar-AAOtZAP?ocid=msedgntp
The 'work from home' culture (stock inset) in Whitehall left Britons at the mercy of the Taliban (right) in Afghanistan, senior Cabinet Ministers have told The Mail on Sunday. Civil servants away from their desks could not read vital documents about UK citizens trying to flee the murderous regime, hampering their escape. 'People were left to the Taliban who could have been saved,' the Minister said, adding that the Government had 'lost a week' in the rescue mission because of the 'culture of absenteeism' in Whitehall. The UK failed to airlift hundreds of Britons out of Afghanistan before Western troops withdrew on August 28. Vital time was lost in Britain because sensitive documents can only be read in Government offices for security reasons - but as many as four out of five officials were working from home. The revelation comes after Boris Johnson last week urged workers to get back to the office or risk being 'gossiped about'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10076061/Home-working-left-Britons-Talibans-mercy-Afghanistan-Ministers-claim.html