In February 2022, sitting in an office not far from the Ministry of Defence’s Whitehall HQ, a member of the armed forces pressed “send” on two emails. Two emails that would spark one of the most extraordinary secret government operations in modern history over fears that 100,000 lives were in danger.
They would lead to an unprecedented gagging order on the British press through a superinjunction; claims that parliament was being misled; and the largest covert evacuation in UK peacetime, projected to cost the taxpayer billions.
