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‘Pursue this urgently’: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airlift
Emails released as part of employment tribunal lift lid on questionable decisions made amid Afghanistan evacua…
- Afghanistan, BBC, Boris Johnson, Civil service, Foreign policy, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Law, Media, Military, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Kabul evacuation whistleblower wins case against UK government
Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures‘…
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UK whistleblower ‘morally compelled’ to speak out on Afghan withdrawal
Civil servant Josie Stewart spoke to media after government presented ‘dishonest account’, tribunal toldA Fore…
- Afghanistan, Civil service, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Law, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news
Sacked Foreign Office whistleblower hits out at secrecy of tribunal hearing
Josie Stewart, who highlighted failures in Afghan evacuation, is concerned by attempt to keep her legal challe…
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The Guardian view on the Afghan evacuation: a governmental disaster and human tragedy | Editorial
A damning report by the Commons foreign affairs committee exposes the full scale of failure by ministers and o…
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Top official at Foreign Office called upon to resign over Kabul withdrawal
Sir Philip Barton castigated along with Dominic Raab in damning report by MPs into UK’s chaotic exitThe senior…
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Boris Johnson did prioritise animal charity for Afghan evacuation, MPs told
Second whistleblower suggests to committee that top civil servants lied to cover up episodeA second whistleblo…
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Whistleblower on UK’s Afghan evacuation: main accusations
Civil servants scrambling to save Afghans were ‘appalled by our chaotic system’ and animals were put above hum…
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UK has no coherent plan for Afghan refugee crisis, says ex-Whitehall chief
Mark Sedwill also attacks west’s withdrawal as a ‘bad policy, badly implemented’Britain and its allies have no…
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Cross-Whitehall unit set up to counter false coronavirus claims
DCMS-based unit aims to identify disinformation about virus and establish its scopeA special cross-Whitehall u…