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Michelle Donelan has admitted she was wrong and paid undisclosed damages after falsely accusing Professor Kate Sang of supporting terrorism. Donellan also wrongly accused Dr Kamna Patel of sharing extremist content online.
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Nice to know PM Sunak has full confidence in Donelan, an excellent minister apparently. The payment to Prof Sang came from the Department of Science (i.e. the taxpayer).
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.// Ms Donelan - who has been secretary of state for science, innovation and technology since February - spoke of her "disgust and outrage" at the appointments and called on UKRI to remove both women from the group.
A months-long investigation by UKRI found no evidence that either Prof Sang or Dr Patel had breached their roles' terms of reference or the Nolan principles. //
She posted her false accusations in a letter on her X account (formerly Twitter), not on Government notepaper. This was evidently her personal post, not a Governmental Science Department official comment. So why am I paying the bill to keep her out of the Libel courts?
And if her untrue remarks are not going to cost her financially, how is she going to learn from the mistake ?
So Ms Donelan gave an insincere apology and we had to pay £15k for the privilege. But there've been questions in parliament, widespread media (TV, radio and internet) coverage. Yet another dishonest, ill thought through and ineffective Terrible Tory Toff policy.
P.s. Penny Mordaunt defended Ms Donelan by saying she'd returned a ministerial payout (£16k) when she lost her post after Bozo resigned. She'd been in post less than two days! Snouts, troughs etc.