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Civil Servant's Social Media Posts Under Scrutiny

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Atikur Rahman, a Home Office civil servant, is running for the Green Party in Birmingham, despite an investigation into his social media posts questioning his political neutrality. His activity shows criticism of both Conservative and Labour leaders, and he has liked posts supporting Palestinian liberation and condemning memorials as political. Rahman insists his reactions were mistakes, not endorsements, and he will cooperate with the process.

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Civil Servant's Social Media Posts Under Scrutiny

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Civil Servant's Social Media Posts Under Scrutiny. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On May 1st, a home office civil-servered name Attica Ramon is running for the Green Party in Birmingham's Tisley and Hay Mills Ward next week. He's worked there nearly three years, even overseeing the Rwanda deportation treaty. Now he's under investigation for social media posts that question his political neutrality. Earlier this year, Ramon reacted with a laughing emoji to a LinkedIn post-morning Israeli deaths from the October 7th attacks. He also liked post-supporting Palestinian liberation, condemning memorials as political, and claiming Israel-funded UK riots. His activity shows criticism of both conservative and labor leaders. He liked calls, branding former Home Secretary Suella Braverman evil, and post-slamming government immigration rules as cruel or fear, mongering. Braverman called it outrageous sabotage of border policies, vowing reform UK would fix the civil service. The home office confirmed their probing for breaches of the civil service code on impartiality. Meanwhile, the Green Party is reviewing his posts,

and Ramon says any wrong reactions were mistakes, not endorsements. He insists he serve impartially and will cooperate with the process.

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