Rishi Sunak Cabinet suffers first resignation: Senior minister Gavin Williamson quits amid bullying allegations

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Gavin Williamson, a elderly minister and close associate of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, abnegated following claims of bullying, performing in the first abdication at the latter’s Cabinet.

The textbook dispatches Williamsonsent to a colleague are the subject of an ongoing complaints procedure. While he expressed his remorse to the philanthropist for those textbooks, he was following this procedure, Williamson said in his abdication letter.

There have been other allegations made about my once conduct. I refute the characterisation of these claims, but I honor these are getting a distraction for the good work this government is doing,” he added.

When Williamson was the defence clerk under the former high minister Theresa May, he bullied a elderly civil worker in the Ministry of Defence and asked them to “ slit” their throat, media reports suggest. Williamson was formerly under fire for a different blameworthiness of bullying made by a different Conservative MP.

On November 8, Anne Milton- Williamson’s former deputy when he served as principal scourge, said in an interview with Channel 4 News that his gestwhile in office was” hanging ” and” intimidating,” and that he’d use MPs’ health issues as” influence”.She recalled one case when he asked her to give a check to a member of congress who needed fiscal aid. “ And he gestured it under my nose and said, ‘ Make sure when you give him this cheque, he knows I now enjoy him ’,” she said. “ I do n’t suppose it was a joke. It was the soberness with which he said it.”

It’s with great sadness that I accept your abdication. I know your commitment to consecutive Conservative governments and the party over the times has been unwavering,” Sunak wrote while accepting Williamson’s abdicationHe also thanked the elderly minister for his “ particular support and fidelity”. “ I know you’ll continue to represent your ingredients with industriousness and care,” he added.