Gavin Williamson resigns from his position in the British Executive after a complaint against him for harassment and intimidation

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The Minister of State without Portfolio Gavin Williamson, who is part of the Executive of the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has resigned his post on Tuesday after a complaint against him for alleged harassment and intimidation against an official during his time as Minister of Defending.

The complaint was made public on Monday in the newspaper ‘The Guardian’. A former senior official assured, after years of keeping silent about Williamson’s alleged comments against him when he was Defense Minister (2017-2019), that the politician even told him to cut his throat.

However, Williamson assured, after this complaint was made public in the British press, that he had always “enjoyed good working relations” with the various officials with whom he has worked.

The former senior official, who at the time reported these events to the head of Human Resources in his office, although he did not file any formal complaint, went on to assure that these and other words of his had had “an extreme impact” on his mental health , according to the Sky News chain.

Williamson, who in recent days has been under public scrutiny after several text messages were leaked with insults towards her then-boss Wendy Morton due to disagreements in the framework of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, has held relevant positions in the previous executives as Minister of Defense and as Minister of Education.

In his resignation letter, published this Tuesday on his Twitter profile, the minister without portfolio in the Sunak government has refuted how his “past conduct” has been characterized, although he has defended his departure by assuring that these accusations were becoming a distraction for the Executive.

For her part, her former deputy director Anne Milton, who worked closely with Williamson, has also claimed that she used her “influence” and threats to control several MPs and instill a culture of fear in Westminster, according to the BBC.

Specifically, Milton has alleged that Williamson, who faces three separate investigations into his actions, two under the Independent Complaints and Complaints Scheme (ICGS) and the other under the Conservative Party, was behaved in an “unethical and immoral” and “outrageous” manner between July 2016 and November 2017.