Steve Moxon (whistleblower)

This article is about the British former civil servant. For the Australian kickboxer, see Steve Moxon.

Steven Paul Moxon[1] is a British former civil servant who came to prominence as a whistleblower in March 2004 while he was employed as a caseworker at the Home Office, the ministerial department of the United Kingdom that handles immigration. Moxon revealed that immigration checks were not being followed for people from Eastern European countries which were due to join the European Union later that year. This led to the resignation of the junior Home Office minister Beverley Hughes.[2][3]

Moxon was selected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for the 2012 local elections in Sheffield,[1] but was deselected following comments he made on his blog about the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.[4][3]

Moxon has written two books: one on immigration and the other on the science of the relationship between the sexes. The former attracted praise from some critics, but was criticised by others as "highly selective" and Islamophobic. The latter has been described as "singularly odd" and "wilfully controversial".

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