Dominic Raab

The deputy prime minister appeared on the ITV breakfast show on Tuesday, where he was questioned about whether Boris Johnson had previous knowledge of ...

Pincher was appointed to enforce party discipline in February this year. Susanna repeated her question, as Raab insisted the claims were “substantiated” but argued that “guilty is a very loaded term”. Susanna stated that Pincher was “found guilty” in a subsequent investigation, but Raab insisted that “no formal disciplinary action was taken” against Pincher, despite the the complaint being upheld.

Roll up, roll up for Deputy Clown Dominic Raab. Officially he may be Deputy Prime Minister, but it's clear he thinks that involves mimicking BoJo, ...

“I didn’t ask him, and he didn’t raise it with me.” As justice secretary, Raab is quite comfortable with the concept of plausible deniability. “I don’t know whether he was told directly,” the deputy PM replied, rather making a mockery of his earlier suggestion that the PM being brief was “factually incorrect”. If he doesn’t know whether the PM was told, how can he confidently insist reports that he was not told were wrong? He continued to prove how on top of the justice brief he is by tackling Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid about her using the word guilty less than an hour later. It is not my understanding that he was directly briefed.” First up he told BBC Radio 4’s Justin Webb that suggestions the Prime Minister was briefed about Chris Pincher’s behaviour was “just factually incorrect”. “I’ve discussed this with the Prime Minister of the last 24 hours.

Boris Johnson's government has been accused of lying after it said last week it was not aware of claims of wrongdoing against the Tamworth MP before ...

DR : "Susanna, you always do this. So the investigation into the facts upheld the complaint, but no formal disciplinary action was taken in the Cabinet Office. The fact of the matter is a complaint about inappropriate behaviour was made and investigation was undertaken. And the complaint was upheld." I was clear we needed to understand the substance to these claims and what had happened." It means a complaint was made.

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid locked horns with Dominic Raab in a clash over Deputy Chief whip Chris Pincher.

DOMINIC RAAB has said the UK is 'already talking about' employing criminals and prisoners to help plug the shortage of workers in Britain, claiming they ...

Would you consider, as the justice minister, using prisoners to come and pick that fruit in the fields?” Mr Raab said the employment of offenders was a “good opportunity” to fix worker shortages and that many local businesses who had already partaken of the scheme to help prisoners into a job were satisfied with the work. Speaking to Tom Swarbrick on LBC, the Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister said there is a “massive push” to get those either in prison or leaving prison “into work”, with the number of people in work within six months of release having increased by 67 percent in the last year.

Following reports that Boris Johnson had been briefed about allegations of Chris Pincher, the deputy minister appeared on Good Morning Britain.

Can you help by chipping in as little as £1 a week to help us survive? When asked bluntly whether Pincher “was guilty of inappropriate behaviour, or not?”, Raab responded: ‘He was found… To which Reid replied: “What you did in response is one thing.