A woman is suing the Government after she was sacked for blowing the whistle about the UK’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Josie Stewart, who is originally from Market Drayton, was sacked from the civil service last year following an anonymous interview she gave to the BBC.
Now the former senior official says she will be taking the government to court in the hope she can establish a legal right for civil servants to blow the whistle when the public interest requires it. “It wasn’t until December 2021, when I’d moved back to my regular role that a parliamentary select committee was running an inquiry into how the withdrawal was managed,” she said.
As part of her case, Ms Stewart will be challenging her dismissal on the basis of the Public Interest Disclosure Act of 1998, which protects individuals who make certain disclosures of information that are deemed in the public interest.
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