カテゴリー: Civil service
Emails released as part of employment tribunal lift lid on questionable decisions made amid Afghanistan evacuationKabul evacuation whistleblower wins case against UK governmentThe desperation on the faces of tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan w…
Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures‘Pursue this urgently’: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airliftA civil servant who blew the whistle about the chaoti…
Civil servant Josie Stewart spoke to media after government presented ‘dishonest account’, tribunal toldA Foreign Office civil servant felt “morally compelled” to speak to the media about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after the government pre…
Josie Stewart, who highlighted failures in Afghan evacuation, is concerned by attempt to keep her legal challenge privateA whistleblower who was sacked for highlighting Britain’s chaotic response to the fall of Kabul has expressed frustration at govern…
A damning report by the Commons foreign affairs committee exposes the full scale of failure by ministers and officialsThe excoriating parliamentary report on Britain’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan is such a lengthy catalogue of failure t…
Sir Philip Barton castigated along with Dominic Raab in damning report by MPs into UK’s chaotic exitThe senior civil servant in charge of the Foreign Office should consider his position after presiding over a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that…
Second whistleblower suggests to committee that top civil servants lied to cover up episodeA second whistleblower has gone public to say it was “widespread knowledge” in government that Boris Johnson ordered the prioritisation of an animal charity base…
Civil servants scrambling to save Afghans were ‘appalled by our chaotic system’ and animals were put above humansWhistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuationFresh questions about Dominic Raab’s role in debacleHow Afghan reporter was left…
Mark Sedwill also attacks west’s withdrawal as a ‘bad policy, badly implemented’Britain and its allies have no coherent plan to deal with the huge refugee crisis expected to follow the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a former cabinet secretary has w…
DCMS-based unit aims to identify disinformation about virus and establish its scopeA special cross-Whitehall unit has been set up to counter coronavirus-related disinformation, including from Russia and China, working closely with social media companie…