The excitement over his home secretary, Suella Braverman, has hardly calmed down when the next ministerial crisis plagues the new British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.

Cabinet office minister Gavin Williamson, whom Sunak put into office just two weeks ago, resigned on Tuesday evening.

He is said to have acted tyrannically towards employees and party friends.

Jochen Buchsteiner

Political correspondent in London.

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The opposition thinks they can see a pattern and accuses the Prime Minister of a lack of judgment in personnel policy, which is having an impact on other policy areas.

Labor leader Keir Starmer said in the House of Commons on Wednesday that anyone who doesn't stand up to a "pathetic lout" like Williamson can't prevail against business lobbyists or lead the country.

Sunak is accused of having been warned about Williamson's appointment.

Some of the outages that have come to light in recent days date back to Williamson's time as Secretary of Defense.

Although he had not been dismissed from this office because of "bullying" allegations, the circumstances had not been honorable in 2019.

Then-Prime Minister Theresa May was convinced he had reported to a journalist on confidential discussions at the National Security Council.

Williamson did not show a happy hand during his time as Minister of Education either and was dropped by May's successor Boris Johnson in his first cabinet reshuffle.

He scares off visitors with a tarantula

On Tuesday, The Guardian reported that Williamson, as defense secretary, allegedly barked at a senior official to "slit his throat."

He recommended to another to "jump out of the window".

According to the "Guardian", those affected want to contact a complaints committee because of the "extreme effects on their mental health".

Williamson denied the matter, but then resigned later that day to protect the government from "distraction" and to do his best to solve the allegations.

Sunak regretted Williamson's appointment on Wednesday and called his resignation "absolutely correct".

At the same time, he assured the House of Commons that he knew nothing about the allegations.

However, there are indications that Sunak was aware of a recent failure by Williamson shortly before his 25 October cabinet line-up.

The day before, parliamentary discipline MP Wendy Morton, the first female chief whip in Tory history, told the party that it would make a formal complaint about Williamson's inappropriate texts, including calling the ethics team in the Cabinet Office .

In the text messages, Williamson had complained that - allegedly through Morton's doing - he had not been invited to Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.

"There's a price for everything," he threatened, calling her behavior "absolutely disgusting."

She used the monarch's death to take revenge on unpopular colleagues.

Williamson, who likes to scare visitors away with a live tarantula on his desk, was a mere MP at the time, but opposition politicians speculate he may have known of his promotion to Cabinet Office minister the next day.

Sunak, in turn, is said to have been notified of Morton's lawsuit on October 24.

At least that's what Jake Berry, the former Tory 'Chairman', who has recently been ousted from office by the party's endless castling, claims.