A whistleblower’s view

And Damian Green is suspected of what, exactly? I just spoke to Steve  Moxon, who was a whistleblower in the Home Office and sacked for leaking stories. As you can imagine, he knows more about the legalities of all this than most. When he was rumbled, he said, he was safe under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. It protects whistleblowers who are doing it for the public interest (as opposed to for money, etc). Moxon lost his job, but kept his liberty – and wrote a rather good book about it all, The Great Immigration Scandal. Moxon told me he couldn’t begin to work out what was going on in this case.
 
I believe Gordon Brown when he says he had no prior knowledge of Green’s arrest, and also suspect he would have stopped the arrest if he could. He will be under no illusions as to how bad this will look, and that there will be those who’ll think (wrongly) that he somehow encouraged Green’s arrest.