Oxfam trustee quits board over ‘cruel’ treatment of ex-boss

Balwant Singh calls for regulatory intervention after Halima Begum was forced out as chief executive

An Oxfam trustee has resigned from the charity's board over claims of governance failures and cruel and inhumane" treatment of the organisation's former boss.

Dr Balwant Singh said he had lost confidence in the board's governance, integrity, transparency and accountability" a month after Halima Begum was forced out as chief executive. These failures are now sufficiently serious and systemic to warrant external regulatory intervention," Singh said.