That’s not unheard of, but it is unusual.” “And he is not someone who was frequently questioning this behaviour when he was at Uber – he was complicit in the wrongdoing he was seeking to expose. “He has a contact book gleaned over four decades in the higher echelons of government relations and public policy,” Paul said. MacGann, on the other hand, “had all the characteristics of a skilled networker”. “No two whistleblowers are the same,” Paul Lewis said, “but Mark is quite unlike most of them.”Ī lot of the time, the people who come forward to tell a story of dubious governmental or corporate behaviour are outsiders, operating far from the centres of power.
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Mark MacGann faced intensifying threats from taxi drivers during his time with Uber. And I know you have to publish that’Ī protest against Uber in Paris in 2016. In depth: ‘You’re going to find evidence of my involvement. The mother has lived in the UK for two decades. Immigration | A British resident who gave birth in Jamaica last April has been left stranded there after the Home Office told her that her baby cannot enter Britain as he has an “established life” on the island. An estimated 4.4m households are thought to be in “serious financial difficulties”. The teenager is one of the UK’s youngest convicted murderers.Ĭost of living | A study tracking more than 6,000 UK households has found that the cost of living crisis has put more people in financial trouble than Covid-19. He was born as Hussein Abdi Kahin.Ĭrime | A 15-year-old boy has been jailed for the murder of 12-year-old Ava White for a minimum of 13 years. Mo Farah | The four-time Olympic champion has revealed that he was illegally trafficked into Britain under the name of another child as a nine-year-old and forced into domestic servitude. Tory leadership | Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on 5 September, it has been announced, as the starting gun was fired on a Tory leadership race that will see the hopefuls whittled down to two by Thursday. In today’s newsletter, the Guardian’s head of investigations, Paul Lewis – who first met MacGann at a Geneva hotel six months ago – talks about how the source made this seismic decision. Nonetheless, his face is on the front page of the Guardian this morning, and you can hear him on the Today in Focus podcast – and his story is being told by partner news organisations around the world. As the ultimate insider to the nexus of corporate and government interests, you might think he would be the last person who would want to reveal these kinds of details of how the system works.
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