Earlier this week, the ministry published a statement saying that Key had “backed down for private reasons,” said a Financial Times report. The FT cited people familiar with the question saying that Key’s decision was not linked to the government’s strategic journal, which should be published soon.
Key had to withdraw from his post this summer, after being chief of the Royal Navy since 2021. This means that the search for his successor was already underway.
Last year, Key apologized not reserved for “intolerable” misogyny in the underwater service, after a series of investigations through the navy exposed to sexual harassment, intimidation and assaults of women in its ranks, according to The Guardian.
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