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| 'Are you a nightmare to work for?' Raab asked by BBC | 'Are you a nightmare to work for?' Raab asked by BBC |
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| In his first broadcast interview since his quitting as deputy PM, Domimic Raab told the BBC's Chris Mason the only complaints upheld against him were by "a handful of very senior officials", out of hundreds of civil servants he had dealt with. | |
| Asked if the blunt truth was that he was a nightmare to work for, the Mr Raab hit out at a "small minority of very activist civil servants". | Asked if the blunt truth was that he was a nightmare to work for, the Mr Raab hit out at a "small minority of very activist civil servants". |
| "What you've got is the risk here a very small minority of very activist civil servants, with a passive aggressive culture of the civil service, who don't like some of the reforms, whether it's Brexit, whether it's parole reform, whether it's human rights reform, effectively trying to block government - that's not on. That's not democratic." | "What you've got is the risk here a very small minority of very activist civil servants, with a passive aggressive culture of the civil service, who don't like some of the reforms, whether it's Brexit, whether it's parole reform, whether it's human rights reform, effectively trying to block government - that's not on. That's not democratic." |