カテゴリー: Ben Wallace
Letter to defence secretary says promise of visas is hollow without plan to evacuate guards from Afghanistan Dozens of cross-party MPs have signed a letter to the defence secretary calling on him to evacuate all the guards who provided security for the…
How the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan precipitated a political one at the heart of UK governmentOn Thursday last week, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, had tried to sound composed as he announced a small number of British troops were heading ou…
Exclusive: defence secretary accuses Foreign Office of leaving MoD staff to handle visa fallout, say sourcesCabinet splits have emerged over Afghanistan, with the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, accusing the Foreign Office of evacuating diplomats while…
The UK defence secretary has admitted ‘some people will not get back’ as Britain tries to evacuate Afghan allies from Kabul, along with its own citizens, with British forces aiming to repatriate more than 1,000 people a day. Ben Wallace appeared to hol…
Ben Wallace says he is ‘absolutely concerned’ about terrorism threat, contradicting Biden analysisJoe Biden’s decision to rapidly withdraw from Afghanistan is threatening to turn into one of the biggest Anglo-American foreign policy rifts in decades, w…
Ben Wallace says troop pullout had given Taliban momentum and ‘international community will probably pay the consequences’The UK defence secretary has criticised the US decision to leave Afghanistan as a “mistake” that has handed the Taliban “momentum”…
MoD wants to procure cheaper armed drones for UK as it studies lessons from recent conflict in Nagorno-KarabakhThe UK’s military is expected to embark on a new armed drone programme in response to Azerbaijan’s controversial use of the technology in its…