When the Financial Conduct Authority headed to new offices in London’s East End in 2018, the regulator hoped staff would welcome the move with open arms. Instead, a select number chose to mark the occasion with a form of dirty protest.
It took 18 months for the fresh headquarters in Stratford, on the edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to descend into “shameful” squalor, according to a message sent by then chief operating officer Georgina Philippou, leaked to the Evening Standard.
