A whistleblower who was dismissed by the Foreign Office after helping to expose the Government’s much-criticised response to the fall of Kabul has claimed she “witnessed the biggest foreign policy failure of our time” and “devastating failings”, a judge was told.
Josie Stewart, a former senior official at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), lost her job after an interview with the BBC in which she spoke about her “traumatic experiences” working in the FCDO Afghanistan Crisis Centre in summer 2021.
