GB News rumours swirl as Rees-Mogg declares: ‘I don’t think Raab needed to resign’
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Dominic Raab should not have resigned, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said, suggesting the former deputy PM “had not done anything improper.” Mr Raab quit this morning after a report upheld two claims of bullying against him and found he was “unreasonably and persistently aggressive” in a meeting while foreign secretary. Speaking to GB News this evening, former Cabinet minister Mr Rees-Mogg declared Mr Raab had been wrong to take such action, which he claimed set a “damaging” precedent for the role of the civil service. “I don’t think Dominic Raab needed to resign, I don’t think the report found he had done anything improper,” Mr Rees-Mogg told the broadcaster. Sources from GB News reportedly told The Express that Mr Raab would be a “good fit” for the broadcaster, following the debuts of his fellow Tory MPs Esther McVey, Philip Davies and Lee Anderson.
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