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Priti Patel has reached a six-figure settlement with a senior public official following claims that he was forced to leave his job for intervening in his alleged harassment of co-workers, it has been discovered.
Sir Philip Rutnam, a former permanent secretary of the Home Office, had threatened to take the home secretary to a labor court hearing in September.
It was the first time that a secretary of state had been brought before a labor court by a former permanent secretary, the highest-ranking official in a government department.
Rutnam said in a statement issued through his union: “I am pleased to say that the government today resolved the claims that I filed against them and that they were due to be heard in a labor court in September.
“This settlement resolves my own case. The FDA continues to investigate the broader issues that have been raised in separate proceedings, ”he said.
Patel will be under pressure to reveal the full amount paid to settle the case, as well as the costs. Rutnam was understood to have witnessed several incidents which he claimed showed that Witham’s MP was intimidating staff.
He resigned from his position as permanent secretary of the Ministry of the Interior on February 29, 2020 and subsequently initiated a judicial process against the Ministry of the Interior.
