{"id":63786,"date":"2024-05-03T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/uk-whistleblower-morally-compelled-speak-out-afghan-withdrawal"},"modified":"2024-05-03T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:00:28","slug":"uk-whistleblower-morally-compelled-to-speak-out-on-afghan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63786","title":{"rendered":"UK whistleblower \u2018morally compelled\u2019 to speak out on Afghan withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servant Josie Stewart spoke to media after government presented \u2018dishonest account\u2019, tribunal told<\/p>\n<p>A Foreign Office civil servant felt \u201cmorally compelled\u201d to speak to the media about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after the government presented a \u201cdishonest account\u201d of what happened, an employment tribunal has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Josie Stewart was sacked by the Foreign Office (FCDO) after blowing the whistle on the failures of the withdrawal from Kabul and disclosing emails indicating Boris Johnson\u2019s involvement in an \u201coutrageous\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/mar\/21\/boris-johnson-did-prioritise-animal-charity-for-afghan-evacuation-mps-told\">decision<\/a> to prioritise the evacuation of staff from the animal charity Nowzad, despite his denials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/uk-whistleblower-morally-compelled-speak-out-afghan-withdrawal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servant Josie Stewart spoke to media after government presented \u2018dishonest account\u2019, tribunal toldA Foreign Office civil servant felt \u201cmorally compelled\u201d to speak to the media about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after the government pre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1204,319,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-civil-service","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions\/63787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}