Alleged Yellowhammer Leaker Sacked.

[Khandro]

Isn't the enemy within always worse than the enemy without ?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1171880/brexit-news-downing-street-leaker-brexit-secrets-dominic-cummings-latest

[Old_Geezer]

Be interesting to see how it all pans out.

Maybe she will be shifted to a position farther away from the top, in which case wouldn't be a sacking so much as a compulsory move.

[Gromit]

Old Geezer.

She is SACKED!
Humiliatingly marched off the premises.

Not a compulsory move to another department or demotion - fired on the spot.

Certainly employment law has been broken.

[gulliver1]

How come Cummings has the power to sack a Civil Servant ?.

[douglas9401]

Because it's a brave new world, Gulliver.

[Khandro]

Gromit; //They looked for evidence on her phones, but didn’t find any, but fired her anyway. //

Do you have a link to that please?

[naomi24]

//Nobody ever signs the Official Secrets Act.//

That’s not strictly true. Government employees generally have it written into their contract but depending upon the nature of the employment some are required to sign it as reinforcement.

[Ken4155]

While i acknowledge the process may have altered since the mid 70s, when i was enlisted on to the Intelligence Section for my 3rd tour of Ulster, i had to read the OS act then sign a document to say i had read it and would totally abide by it.

[Gromit]

Khandro, I have already provided the relevent info

// At the meeting with Mr Cummings, Ms Khan, who worked under Mr Hammond, handed over both her personal and work phones, and her phone logs were checked.
Evidence was found that she had been in touch with former colleagues who had worked for Mr Hammond, but not that she had been involved in leaking any sensitive government information. //

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49532243

Further:
// a former minister told the BBC he believed the dismissal was in conflict with the Ministerial Code, as staffing matters should be the responsibility of the relevant minister - in this case, the chancellor. //

[Khandro]

Gromit; Thanks, but checking her phones would not give, as it says, any evidence as to what she had said, only whom she had phoned & she may have to be asked why she phoned them? which would then need corroboration. This still has some way still to run I think.

[Peter Pedant]

// i had to read the OS act then sign a document to say i had read it and would totally abide by it.//

yeah I thought I had it parked under my schnozz when I started at Porton Down 1969. ( you know the novichok place)

RV Jones in Secret War daid he had signed and added at the bottom - " the 1929 and 1932 revisions are worth a read as well!"

they later sent a despatch rider down to whitehall to pick them up

[Peter Pedant]

// Certainly employment law has been broken.//
um
the employment position is far from clear actually
Special advisers are a creature of Tony Blair ( bless! and bless his wifes £50m amassed since 1997) and are NOT civil servants

and if she had a contract of less than two years then they can cheerfully cut her throat innit?

The civil servant who told the Police they couldnt lawfully go into the Libyan Embassy after the death of Yvonne Fletcher when they could ( doctrine of hot pursuit ) could NOT be fired for incompetence

but Margaret Thatcher changed the rules specifically as a result

( so that now, civil servants CAN be fired for incompetence just in case the usual suspects are finding this hard to follow)

[Markandinwardlyd]

// undemocratic referendum thwarters//

As opposed to Brexiteers, who are so in favour of democracy that they want to shut down our democratically elected parliament!

[dannyk13]

///Nobody ever signs the Official Secrets Act.//
I have signed the OS Act twice, once in the army and secondly in the police force.

[Khandro]

Marka.. //As opposed to Brexiteers, who are so in favour of democracy that they want to shut down our democratically elected parliament!//

There is nothing at all undemocratic about that decision. By dreadful mismanagement, Theresa May squandered the large Tory majority, but even so the Tories are still (just) the democratically elected majority party & within that party Boris was democratically elected by a large majority to lead it on a clear upfront ticket to leave the EU by all available means.
This is what he is doing, what's so 'undemocratic'?