投稿者: Peter Walker Political correspondent
Sunak’s government has refused to echo assertion that Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detainedRishi Sunak and the Foreign Office appear to be scaling back the UK’s support for Jagtar Singh Johal, the British Sikh activist held in an Indian jail…
Boris Johnson and Liz Truss among those saying Ukraine war highlights potential Chinese threat to TaiwanBoris Johnson and his ministers are going into the Nato summit with fresh warnings that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown the need for extra…
James Cleverly describes ‘flood of requests’ for help after reports that emails about Afghans may have gone unreadThe UK evacuation effort from Afghanistan had to focus on people already at Kabul airport meaning many cases raised by MPs and others may …
Chaotic airlift ends after taking around 14,000 people out of Taliban-controlled countryThe final UK evacuation flight purely for Afghan nationals has left Kabul airport, ending an often chaotic process in which about 14,000 people were airlifted out o…
Defence secretary says up to 1,100 eligible Afghans to be left behind, as UK stops taking people into Kabul airportAfghanistan: live updatesThe UK has stopped taking people into Kabul airport to remove them from Afghanistan, the defence secretary, Ben …
British forces have just days to complete airlift after G7 leaders refuse to change 31 August exit dateAfghanistan latest news – liveBritish forces have a matter of days to complete their humanitarian airlift in Afghanistan after Boris Johnson failed t…
Former PM attacks ‘dangerous’ withdrawal, saying Islamist groups, Russia and China will benefitThe UK and other countries should “commit for the long term” in places such as Afghanistan, Tony Blair has argued, claiming the chaotic withdrawal would prov…
Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was ‘quickly overtaken by events’Dominic Raab has confirmed he delegated a phone call with the Afghan foreign minister to a junior, and argued that it was the correct thing to do, in his fi…
Ministers are expected to announce a ‘bespoke’ scheme similar to that put in place for Syrians in 2014Afghanistan – latest updatesMinisters are expected to announce plans for a new settlement scheme in the UK for Afghan nationals following the Taliban …
UK foreign secretary claims swift collapse was impossible to predict, as he says evacuations have resumedAfghanistan – latest updatesIt was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troo…
Chinese newspaper said countries that boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over treatment of Uighurs would face retaliationThe Liberal Democrats have warned China against “international bullying” after a call by UK MPs for countries to boycott the 2022…
Layla Moran will urge UK consumers to consider boycotting Chinese firms at party conferenceThe Liberal Democrats are to call on the government to consider sanctions against Chinese leaders over rights abuses against the Uighur people, and urged the Bri…
Raab expected to suspend UK’s Hong Kong extradition treaty due to security crackdownChina has said the UK will be heading “down the wrong path” if, as expected, Dominic Raab announces on Monday he is suspending an extradition treaty with Hong Kong due …