He produced his own drafts, his own redlines, his own emails, including four that are extremely bad for him and that nobody would ever have found.

And what he said, which is in the report at some length, is this.

He said that the language was his.

He said nobody told him to write it.

He said that in the February of 2022 he had been in a meeting where DEG had lost a teaming slot to a competitor and Christian had been angry, and that he had gone away and rewritten the capability statement over a weekend, and that he had put that section in because he had spent twenty-two years on the other side of the table and he knew exactly what a business development director looks for.

He was asked whether Christian Dupont approved it.