John Ivison: Katie Telford, the prime minister’s chief of staff, appeared at the committee to give her account of who knew what and when, in the military sexual misconduct scandal.
“We were faced with a situation where it would have been inappropriate for political staff or a politician to be directly involved,” she said.
So, despite her hand-wringing about being a feminist and wondering whether she should have pushed harder to implement the 2015 Deschamps report into the “sexualized culture” in the military, nothing was done. The nature of the complaint remained a mystery, although she says she was assured it was not a safety issue. That sounds like a case of willful ignorance, where lack of knowledge meant avoiding having to make an unpalatable decision, such as tell the prime minister.
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