Скачать или смотреть El Fattah detention case a ‘running joke’ in Whitehall, says ex Starmer aide

The case of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah had become a “running joke” in Whitehall, a former senior adviser to the Prime Minister has said.

Paul Ovenden, who quit as Sir Keir Starmer’s director of strategy in September, branded the El-Fattah case a “totem of the ceaseless sapping of time and energy by people obsessed with fringe issues”, with the Government occupied by “flim-flam”.

Mr El-Fattah, who was released from Egyptian detention in September, has been forced to apologise for comments he previously made online as far back as 2010, when he appeared to call for violence against Zionists and the police.

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