If Priti Patel Were To Resign Over The Sir Philip Rutnam , Could She Still Be Called To Give Evidence?

[barney15c]

If Ms Patel were resign, will she still have to appear at Sir Philip Rutnam constructive dismissal court case.

[Peter Pedant]

// A spell in the forces would have done him good - as it would a few of the posters on AB !//

erm didnt the Divine Oscar say - a man who calls a spad a spade should learn how to use one ?
spade as in shovel let me explain

the last time I said to a marine 1980 there should be mational service he said christ sake we are a fighting army not a finishing school
[ articulate for a marine huh]

army good for thw soul ? righto ! that is why so many vets are on the streets destitute huh? it teaches them about life

ho hum AB in full spate again - break out the poo!

[Khandro]

National service was not mentioned - you seem to be having a problem keeping up.

[ichkeria]

The government claimed no formal complaints had ever been made against Patel. We now know that is spectacularly untrue.
And now they’ve ordered a full inquiry into her behaviour.
She’ll be gone by ... ?

[Khandro]

link to the formal complaints please

[ichkeria]

Just read the news or the papers for that.

"A vile, horrid, pushy, thicko"
And that is from an ex-colleague and minister!

[david small]

I say PP articulate for a marine....I served as a Royal Marine and consider myself to be more than reasonably articulate.

[Apc2604]

'A vile, horrid, pushy, thicko"
And that is from an ex-colleague and minister!

Is that a formal complaint?

[Khandro]

ichi ; //Just read the news or the papers for that.///

Why the reluctance? I did & all I found was a comment in the Daily Mirror (after which I took a shower) which mentioned "informants have said..." etc. etc. echoed by the beeb.

In any case, a formal complaint even if one existed doesn't denote culpability; many people make formal complaints about there neighbours, only to find at judgement it is they who are at fault.

[Khandro]

their

[ichkeria]

It doesn't denote culpability: the point is the government claimed no such complaint had been made. Possibly because someone spoke without checking or knowing. It's probably no coincidence that the inquiry was announced shortly after

[Spicerack]

Can't help noticing, the same people who are clutching their pearls over Priti thought Bercow a splendid fellow. Can't imagine why.

[jno]

and of course the reverse is also true.

[Spicerack]

^Granted.

[jim360]

// Can't help noticing, the same people who are clutching their pearls over Priti thought Bercow a splendid fellow. //

A fair point, and one I'm not even going to attempt to deny or excuse.

[barney15c]

There is no standard complaints procedure to hold a senior minister to account, that's why they have been able to say they are not aware of a complaint. Anyhoo another complaint has surfaced from her time at DfiD, they can't all be wrong unless of course in the words of the government, dark forces are at work. Now the government would never resort to that kind of tactic now, would they?

[Khandro]

if there are so many complaints against her - she must be doing something right.

Any company whose boss is loved by everyone, is surely heading for oblivion.

[emmie]

i think they are trying to get her out, and if she isn't careful they will succeed.

[ichkeria]

She’s doomed and it’s her own fault.
Although it wasn’t, to be fair, her fault that she got put in the post.
There must be a lot of very able people in the parliamentary party - but try aren’t the ones in the cabinet. There’s actually in that respect a few similarities with labour where ideology and loyalty to the header seems to have been placed above ability

[Khandro]

'It [has taken] a while for Patel’s allies to finally fight back – also anonymously of course. Speaking to Nicholas Watt, a Tory Party source said:

“What we are seeing is a concerted effort by certain sections of the civil service to undermine a home secretary trying to deliver what people want on crime and immigration. It is deeply disturbing that dark forces are trying to influence the findings of a Cabinet Office inquiry.”

The string also unravelled for one of the anti-Patel allegations of bullying, as it emerged one of those claiming to have been bullied out of the DWP when Priti was Employment Minister was already in the process of quitting when she took over, and the accusations of bullying were made against the department – not the minister.

Sebastian Payne reports the ally – presumably from the DWP – making the point:

“It’s actually very serious that a civil servant had mental health issues and attempted to take her own life because of the way she was treated at work by her Civil Service colleagues. And it’s childish and stupid for anonymous friends of Philip Rutnam to push around false stories about Civil Service mistakes which she had nothing to do with.”

Will anybody besides Liam Fox be brave enough to go on the record at some point?'

Guido