![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/rishi-sunak-condemns-gavin-williamsons-messages-as-unacceptable/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000315400610_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg&description=Rishi Sunak has called Sir Gavin Williamson's "bullying" messages to a colleague "not acceptable" amid questions over the Cabinet minister's future. The Prime Minister said he stood by his decision to rehire Sir Gavin as MInister Without Portfolio - his third Cabinet role - despite expletive-laden texts he sent to former chief whip Wendy Morton. Mr Sunak told the Sun: "There's a process happening. It's right to let that conclude. It's not acceptable. "I stand by all the decisions I have made. I did know there was a disagreement from these two individuals but the substance of the text messages I didn't see until last night." Sir Gavin faces an investigation into his behaviour towards Wendy Morton, the former chief whip, after messaging her expressing his anger at not having been invited to the Queen's funeral. A transcript of the messages revealed Sir Gavin had told Liz Truss's chief whip "you f--- us all over" during a row over the guest list for the royal funeral, adding: "There is a price for every thing." Business Secretary Grant Shapps today said Sir Gavin was not "right" to send a series of angry texts to a colleague. He told Sky News: "I don't think it was the right thing to do, to send messages like that. I see they must have been sent in a moment of frustration. "I think, generally, it is the case that it's much better to write things which you would not live to regret later. "And especially with colleagues, writing things which are polite, even if you have a point of view to express, I think is not unreasonable. "So, I don't think he was right to send them. The Prime Minister said the same. I know that the party is going through a process looking at them at the moment." It came as Sir Gavin this morning faced new claims that he had made a tacit threat to a Tory MP over her personal life in 2016. A minister has told the Times that Sir Gavin when he was chief whip in 2016 called her into his office and raised details about her private life which she interpr){kind=link}
Grant Shapps says the messages to Wendy Morton were not “the right thing to do”
Rishi Sunak has called Sir Gavin Williamson’s “bullying” messages to a colleague “not acceptable” amid questions over the Cabinet minister’s future.
The Prime Minister said he stood by his decision to rehire Sir Gavin as MInister Without Portfolio – his third Cabinet role – despite expletive-laden texts he sent to former chief whip Wendy Morton.
Mr Sunak told the Sun: “There’s a process happening. It’s right to let that conclude. It’s not acceptable.
“I stand by all the decisions I have made. I did know there was a disagreement from these two individuals but the substance of the text messages I didn’t see until last night.”