Wisbech - I agree 100% with your first paragraph but suspect that the left/remainer thing may have to come into play a bit.
From what I have read and listened to, Raab was a tough taskmaster and they didn't like it.
Apparently - "abrasive" management is now construed as bullying in the workplace - a fact that will not have helped him.
My take is that there is something there that the public will never know about, otherwise Sunak would have stood up for him - or should have anyway.
It would have been a good bit of judgement, after all - what is wrong with expecting people to do the jobs that they are paid for?
There were people making or backing up complaints who never even met the man - are they still in their jobs - of course they are!
Employment protocol was apparently not followed by the Civil Service either - maybe Ministers are not covered by that?
Whichever way it went, it was a witch hunt and it is a dangerous precedent.
Whatever or whoever they don't like they can now find a way to get rid of someone regardless of the fact that half of them are still sitting at home on our pay!
I am no lover of Raab but whoever is in power - the CC needs to work for them with complete impartiality.

I have an email on file sent a few months ago by a Minister to my MP over an issue she raised on my behalf. This indicates that, this Minister at least, is sh*t scared of the civil servants in their department and unwilling to challenge them over detailed decisions they have made. It feels completely counterintuitive to me. I have another meeting with my MP scheduled which will test how far she is prepared to go!

Health department officials ‘raised concerns’ about Steve Barclay’s behaviour.

If he doesn't get his tea and biccies, it's serious.

From my recollection when I criticised senior civil servants, you were fully supportive of them

Mmmmm

Unless his post turned you on, you likely mean Hmmmm .