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Damian Green Sacked After Sleaze Row<\/b>
\nDamian Green forced to quit after breaching the ministerial code of conduct
\nCabinet Office inquiry found Green had lied about knowing of the existence of porn on his computer
\nProbe found deputy prime minister had made \u2018inaccurate and misleading\u2019 statements
\nConcludes: \u2018Plausible\u2019 evidence he had sexually harassed an activist
\nKate Maltby had accused Green of touching her knee and sending inappropriate texts
\nGreen sent Maltby a text message after she appeared in a corset in a newspaper
\nMaltby\u2019s family not surprised Green was found to have been \u2018untruthful as a minister\u2019
\nPolice officers allege porn was found on a computer seized from his office in 2008
\nResignation is the third from Theresa May\u2019s Cabinet in just a matter of weeks
\nAs First Secretary of State Green deputised for May in Prime Minister\u2019s Question time
\nGreen has for weeks vehemently denied he had done anything wrong
\nAs she makes it to the end of 2017, it\u2019s a measure of Theresa May\u2019s current strength in the job right now that she can afford to sack the man<\/a> who is Deputy Prime Minister in all but name.<\/p>\n

Damian Green chaired nine crucial Cabinet sub-committees, covering everything from immigration to social reform to key Brexit policies. More importantly, he was one of the few people the PM could trust since the departure of her key chiefs of staff after the snap election fiasco.<\/p>\n

Yet Green\u2019s exit, cruelly dubbed \u2018Grexit\u2019 by his critics, underlines just how Brexit now dominates everything May does. It is precisely because she has successfully completed Phase 1 of talks with Brussels that she is free to fire such an important minister.<\/p>\n

Insiders say that the PM was determined to send out a strong message that sexual harassment \u2013 and crucial in this case is that Green failed her new test of making women<\/a> feel \u2018uncomfortable\u2019 – will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n

She will also have wanted to make plain that no one, even a close ally and a friend from Oxford 40 years ago, gets any special favours from Theresa May.<\/p>\n

It is… with deep regret, and enduring gratitude for the contribution you have made over many years, that I asked you to resign from the government and have accepted your resignation Theresa May
\nWe are not surprised to find that the inquiry found Mr Green to have been untruthful as a minister Colin and Victoria Maltby
\nW H A T\u00a0 N E X T?<\/p>\n

The resignation is the third from the Cabinet in just a matter of weeks following the departures of Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, over sex<\/a> harassment, and International Development Secretary Priti Patel over undeclared links to Israel.<\/p>\n

However, Theresa May is not expected to replace Green until the New Year, according to government sources.<\/p>\n

While Green\u2019s statements about claims that porn had been found on his computer may have been found to be\u00a0\u201cinaccurate and misleading\u201d, at least one was still live<\/a> on his Twitter feed at time of publishing.
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\nwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/damian-green-resigns-huffpost-verdict_uk_5a3ad282e4b06d1621b18baa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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