'I was victim of DWP staff's toxic politics'
Daily Express|May 29, 2023
POLITICAL activism has infiltrated Whitehall, according to an ex-civil servant sacked for whistleblowing
Helen Barnett
'I was victim of DWP staff's toxic politics'

Anna Thomas, 32, said Department for Work and Pensions staff were told to "assume" they were racist.

She says she was taught critical race theory while employed as a work coach at a Jobcentre in Portsmouth.

Asked to promote a Metropolitan Police jobs event that excluded straight white men, she told her superiors that this was concerning before her boss complained about her.

Ms Thomas says she found herself fighting a lone battle with the DWP, which refused to accept it was at fault.

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