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• Sacked Foreign Office whistleblower hits out at secrecy of tribunal hearing

  22-04-2023 10:00
  
  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 government attempts to have her legal challenge against her dismissal held in private.Josie Stewart, a senior official, was fired from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for giving an anonymous interview to the BBC about the fa
  
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• ‘Robustness’ or bullying: when does firm management cross the line?

  22-04-2023 08:00
  
  As the Dominic Raab case has shown, allegations of bullying can be highly subjectiveDominic Raab, in his resignation statement, preferred to call it “direct critical feedback” and the “pace, standards and challenge” that he brought to his departments. His allies had previously defended him as someone who simply “expects people to be on their brief and puts them on the spot”.But in his report, Adam Tolley KC found that at times the politician had gone beyond me
  
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