DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab should be suspended said Labour’s Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock.

He issued the call after another allegation of bullying has been made against him by the anti-Brexit activist and businesswoman Gina Miller.

Mr Kinnock told GB News: “Mr Raab should be suspended whilst that investigation is ongoing, because I think it’s pretty clear now that everybody that works around him is going to have some serious doubts about whether or not they should be coming into work today.

“There seems to be a pattern of behaviour from Mr Raab and it’s not fair on his colleagues that they are having to work with somebody who is potentially a bully, and a tyrant and somebody who disrespects the colleagues that he works with.

“So he should be suspended. And if Rishi Sunak had any strength or judgement or leadership quality, that is what he would be doing.

In an interview during Breakfast with Stephen Dixon and Angela Rippon, he said: “But he we’re seeing this pattern behaviour pattern of behaviour as well for Mr Sunak, I’m afraid, the Zahawi case being the most obvious case in point that he doesn’t really have the strength and the leadership that’s required to manage that his cabinet and his government, and particularly when his cabinet and government are so full of people that are either embroiled in financial scandal or in things like bullying like Mr Raab.”

He added: “It was all a matter of public record with Mr Zahawi, there was no need to have an advisor to tell you what was already in newspapers.

“His own admission, he hadn’t paid his tax, he was being pursued by the HMRC whilst he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, so there was no need for an investigation to that.

“But it’s by Mr Zahawi’s his own admission, it was an absolutely clear conflict of interest, and that total failing that any ethical or moral behaviour that you need when you were in a vitally important position, like being Chancellor of the Exchequer.

“So that should have just been dealt with rapidly. And of course, in the end, it was inevitable that Mr Zawawi had to go.

Mr Kinnock also said: “With Dominic Raab, what you see is somebody that whilst he was Foreign Secretary was on a sun lounger on his holidays and refusing to get off the sun lounger whilst the Taliban were retaking Afghanistan.

“There isn’t really a great track record there in terms of somebody that performs well, in his position anyway so there’s an issue around competence.

“There’s an issue around the way in which you behave. And we’ve got a Prime Minister who stood on the steps of Downing Street and promised integrity, professionalism and accountability.

“At every level of his government on on every one of those measures he is failing dramatically.”