Not authorized to send Apple events to Contacts

I have this script in Shortcuts which runs fine when I run it from the Shortcuts page (click on Shortcuts from dock and select its name which is "WORK"

on run {input, parameters}

tell application "Contacts"

set the clipboard to (vcard of people) as text

do shell script "pbpaste >~/Desktop/Other/late.vcf"

quit "Contacts"

end tell

return input

end run

However if I try to run it as a Shortcut menu item, I get "Not authorized to send Apple events to Contacts" and the shortcut does not run

Any clues as to how to make it work from the menubar?

Thanks

Sequoia 15.5