FOR months, anonymous Whitehall whistleblowers have taken to the airwaves to accuse Dominic Raab of everything from “hard staring” and “microaggressions” towards staff to shouting and swearing.
Here, a former senior official who worked for the ex-Justice Secretary delivers their own damning verdict on a failing Civil Service — and insists we need more ministers prepared to tell Whitehall that its work is not good enough.
I’m one of the senior Ministry of Justice officials who worked with Dominic Raab.
My team had made a basic error which had embarrassed him and I was called into his office to explain how and why it had happened.
He was icy to the point of being rude, abrupt, and I left feeling about nine inches tall. And I totally deserved it.
That’s the thing about government. It matters.
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The Ministry of Justice was and is a failing department, where senior staff enjoy comfortable salaries and the best views in London while around them the justice system falls into bits.
Rapists are left at liberty, people are stuck in abusive marriages because they cannot get a court date for their divorce and prisons are festering, filthy factories of crime.
Some of this is down to money. But a lot of it is bad management.
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