What’s the point of Dominic Raab?

Beware of unintended consequences

Why has Rishi Sunak made Dominic Raab his deputy prime minister, secretary of state for justice and lord chancellor?

Here are some suggestions:

• Sunak wanted a competent performer to stand in for him at prime minister’s questions and this was the cabinet post that Raab demanded.

• The prime minister concluded that Raab, despite being his notional deputy, woul…