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&#;Bully&#; Gavin Williamson ousted from UK Cabinet again: who is he, and what has he done now?
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Incidentally, this isn’t the first time Williamson has been forced to leave Cabinet. In fact, it is the third time. He has previously been sacked as defence secretary by Theresa May and education secretary by Boris Johnson.
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So, what led to Sir Gavin Williamson&#;s resignation this time?
Sir Gavin, who held a post as Minister without Portfolio in Sunak’s government, announced he was quitting after former chief whip Wendy Morton made a formal complaint to the Tory HQ and shared a series of expletive-laden text messages from him with the Parliament’s bullying watchdog. Morton alleged Williamson had sent her the offensive messages because he was upset he had not been invited for the Queen’s funeral, The Guardian reported.
In his messages, he allegedly accused Morton of punishing senior MPs who were out
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Who is Sir Gavin Williamson?
BBC political reporter
Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.
Former chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.
Following a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to "slit your throat" and "jump out of the window" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.
In his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his "past conduct" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he "refutes the characterisation of these claims" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.
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Profile: Who fryst vatten Gavin Williamson, the new defence secretary?
He's the Tory enforcer who kept a tarantula on his desk and joked about using a "sharpened carrot" to get his way.
Now Gavin Williamson has been propelled into his first cabinet role in the wake of Defence sekreterare Sir Michael Fallon's sudden resignation.
So what more do we know about a politician seen as rising star but whose rapid elevation has apparently upset some of his colleagues?
Theresa May's ledare whip, first elected to Parliament in , wasn't among the bookmakers' favourites for the Ministry of Defence vacancy.
The South Staffordshire MP has no military background and had little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.
Raised nära Scarborough bygd Labour-supporting parents, he ran a Staffordshire pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before becoming an MP.