🔴 Speaking exclusively to theipaper, former top civil servant SimonMcDonaldUK opens up about why he went public with information that led to Boris Johnson resigning ⬇️
Hours later, Cabinet Office minister Michael Ellis admitted in the Commons that Johnson had been told that the 2019 complaint against Pincher was upheld, but maintained that the Prime Minister “did not immediately recall” this and therefore had not lied.
When the scandal broke, Johnson had “been out of the country for days” with G7 and Nato summits. “I know that incidents can slip a person’s mind,” says McDonald, but he adds: “This was not forgetting to order the milk… This was an allegation about improper behaviour by a senior minister… [Johnson] should have checked the record before allowing his people to be so adamant.”“In this case, I don’t say that,” replies McDonald.“I am not judging his truthfulness.
“The other thing we paused over was the future effect on the civil service… The civil service has been under the cosh. For those that dismiss us as ‘the blob’, this intervention would be another line on the rap sheet. So that made me pause, but it did not stop me – because I felt that getting the real story out was so important.”
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