Britain’s ‘Prime Minister’ contradicts himself over the appointment and resignation of Gavin Williamson, a Foreign Secretary who was forced to leave his post for intimidating his employees
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused by Labor leader Keir Starmer of appointing “a sad and mediocre manager who vents by intimidating those under him” following the resignation of Gavin Williamson, accused of multiple episodes of bullying. The Conservative leader expressed “great sadness” at the resignation in a letter to the resigned and has described his behavior as “unacceptable” in parliament. He has stated that he knows nothing of the disgraced politician’s behavior, but there are testimonials that he has been informed.
Sunak has been at 10 Downing Street for just over two weeks, showing weakness against Starmer in the Commons joust. He refused to attend the COP27 climate summit and changed his mind. His election has not had a strong impact on voter preferences, according to polls. But his specialty is economics and next week his government’s budget will be presented.
The resignation of Secretary of State Sin Portfolio dents the reputation of a prime minister who pledged on October 25 to rule with integrity and accountability. Hours later, he appointed a cabinet in which controversial Home Secretary Suella Braverman stood out, including Williamson, who had been fired by the two previous heads of government, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, without a specific job.
The now-resigned had a relevant role in Sunak’s campaign among the parliamentary faction deputies to take over the leadership of the Conservative Party in the summer. She won that first stage, but lost to Liz Truss in the militant vote. And Braverman, the new star of the party’s right, announced his support for Sunak after she resigned to replace Truss.
The current leader is said to have paid those debts with cabinet appointments. Braverman’s has been heavily criticized for resigning as minister six days earlier for sending confidential cabinet documents to ideological collaborators. It is not clear about the circumstances of his resignation. And his aggressive rhetoric about immigration cracks with the compassionate conservatism promised by Sunak.
Wendy Morton, who was the main discipline of the Conservative parliamentary group during Truss’s brief tenure, reported Williamson to an ethics committee for sending swearing and abusive telephone messages because Morton would not give her invitations to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. . He felt punished for not supporting Truss as a leader.
The Sunday Times published images of the texts between Williamson and Morton on Sunday. It also reported that the first woman to be appointed as head of the conservative group’s discipline reported the episode of harassment to her party and to the cabinet’s committee overseeing ethics in public services. That information reached Sunak before naming Williamson according to the Times. And the prime minister has denied it.
Morton’s brutality encouraged Defense Department officials to expose Williamson as a criminal when he ran the department. He is remembered for saying Vladimir Putin should “go away and shut up” after the attempted murder by Russian agents of a former exiled colleague in Salisbury. And for leaking confidential information from the National Security Council to the press.
The minister is said to have advised his officials to cut their throats or throw themselves out of the window, according to the newspaper ‘The Guardian’. They would be episodes of constant “deliberate humiliation and intimidation”. One of the officials filed a formal complaint on Tuesday. And a former colleague of Williamson went on television to describe him as a bully. After speaking with Sunak, he announced his resignation.
He has a childish aura in his voice, in his complexion and in the lighting of his eyes. When May appointed him head of the parliamentary group, he bought a tarantula that he kept in a drawer in his office. He was right again who would win in the conservative power struggle and took over Johnson’s campaign to replace May. His capital was the exhaustive knowledge of the private lives of his colleagues.
A deputy was threatened with disclosing her sexual life if she persisted in maintaining a position that was troubling the government. To another, he gave a check to get out of his financial troubles, but ordered the deputy who brought him the check to make it clear that he, Williamson, was “his owner” from then on. He was seen in parliament covering his mouth while telling something confidential to another ‘story’. The king of gossip has fallen. Starmer told Rishi that he hired him because of his own fragility towards bullying.
Source: La Verdad
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