British Council manager who was sacked for a cruel rant at George sues for ‘discrimination against her beliefs’

‘A British Council manager who attacked Prince George as a symbol of ‘white privilege’ is suing her former employer amid claims that she was sacked over her republican beliefs.
Angela Gibbins, the organisation’s £80,000-a-year head of global estates, was suspended and later fired after her Facebook tirade.
The 53-year-old – dubbed by colleagues at the charity as the ‘red under the bed’ and the ‘quiet Corbynista’ – had previously refused to meet Prince Charles when he visited her office, stayed at her desk as colleagues watched Lady Thatcher’s funeral, and turned down a Buckingham Palace garden party invitation.
Last week Ms Gibbins took the British Council, which promotes British culture abroad and whose patron is the Queen, to an employment tribunal. She is claiming unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and ‘belief discrimination’.’
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