The letter added that he did not act “reasonably” under the terms of the Public Interest Disclosure Act, the legislation introduced in 1998 to protect whistleblowers.Mr Moxon yesterday said he would take his former employers to the employment tribunal and was confident of victory. Steve Moxon, the immigration whistleblower whose allegations led to the resignation of the Home Office minister Beverley Hughes, is to take the government to employment tribunal after being sacked for “breach of contract”.
Mr Moxon, 48, who was suspended from his job at the Immigration Service in March after revealing that hundreds of visa applications from Eastern European migrants were approved without proper checks, was informed last week by the Home Office he had been dismissed.Mr Moxon was informed, in a five-page letter, that he was “in breach of his contractual obligations”, and had “failed to follow internal procedures”, leading to an “irretrievable breakdown in trust between you and the department”. In the same period the average earnings of executives of FTSE 100 companies has risen by 288 per cent, or six times as fast.Women earned 82 per cent of men’s earnings in 2003, an increase from 79.5 per cent in 1994Unemployment is nearly twice as high in the North-east as it is in the South-east.. OUR DIVIDED NATION PovertyIn 1998 the UK had the highest child poverty rate in the European Union, by 2001 the UK ranked 11th out of 15 EU nations.23 per cent of children in Britain lived in households earning below 60 per cent of median income in 2002. “Levels of child poverty continue to surpass those of many of our more successful European partners, and inequalities in income, wealth and well-being remain stubbornly high.”A spokesman for the John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, said the report was “welcome contribution to this important debate”.
It should now try and do the same for fairness and equality as it has done for public services and shift the terms of political debate.”Social exclusion among minorities has widened since Tony Blair came to power with the difference in employment rates between whites and Asians growing between 1997 and 2001.”Britain is far from being a progressive or just society,” the report says. Since 1990, the increase in the share of wealth held by the top ten per cent of the population has increased from 47 per cent to 54 per cent.And while the average earnings in Britain have grown by just over 45 per cent, the average earnings of top executives of FTSE 100 companies has risen six times as fast.The startling conclusions come a decade after the establishment of the IPPR’s Commission on Social Justice, which was set up at the request of John Smith the late Labour leader and provided much of the data for Tony Blair’s first manifesto. The report found that although there had been success in cutting poverty overall, many of the achievements in achieving social justice have been brought about “by stealth.”"Despite the boldness of its pledge to eradicate child poverty and the expansion of investment in public services, the Government does not consistently articulate and publicly advocate a fairer, more equal Britain,” said Nick Pearce, an IPPR director “It has often achieved social justice objectives by stealth. Unemployment in the North-east was nearly twice as high as in the South-east, the report found.Women are also more likely to live in poverty than men and, in the last ten years, there has been little progress in narrowing the gap in pay levels between the sexes.”Parental, social class and ethnic background still heavily influence life-chances, whilst democratic participation is falling and political influence in polarising according to class and wealth,” the report says.However, the report found that the rich and super rich have thrived under Tony Blair’s premiership.
Twenty three per cent of children in Britain in 2002 lived in households earning below 60 per cent of average income (£472 a week at that time), compared to five per cent in Denmark, 10 per cent in Sweden and 14 per cent in Germany.The report found glaring inequalities between living conditions in the North and South- east of England. The gap between rich and poor in Britain has widened since Tony Blair became Prime Minister, with glaring regional differences and a rise in the number of people with no savings at all, an influential report on the state of the nation has found. Let’s face it, he wanted us to include lies.”Everything Scarlett wanted in was based on very old evidence which we had painstakingly investigated and shown to be false,” he said.. The new head of MI6 tried to persuade weapons inspectors in Iraq to harden up a report on their hunt for weapons of mass destruction, it was claimed yesterday.
