MPs’ alleged bullying of staff likely to continue under scrappy complaints system

Some excuse alleged behaviour of Raab, Patel and Williamson, but others want to clean up Westminster

Like the Westminster sex pest stories and the sleaze rows over lobbying, allegations of bullying just seem to keep on coming out of SW1.

Priti Patel was said by the ministerial ethics adviser to have bullied civil servants but was let off by Boris Johnson; John Bercow was found to have bullied Commons clerks; and Gavin Williamson is accused of telling a civil servant to slit his throat and jump out of a window - the common thread is that they were targeting those they considered beneath them.