Conservatives
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Send Tory ministers to Seoul to learn about mask-wearing | Letter
A recent visitor to South Korea compares the country’s approach to Covid management with that of the UK We are…
- Afghanistan, Conservatives, Education, Foreign policy, Higher education, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, Universities, World news
Afghanistan: former Chevening scholars accuse UK of abandoning them
Government has prioritised rescue of current scholars but estimated 70 alumni are still in countryA group of f…
- Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Conservatives, Dominic Raab, Immigration and asylum, Politics, Priti Patel
Afghan failures show ‘global Britain’ is just an empty slogan | Letters
Mark Newbury highlights the lack of support for refugees, David Beswick writes of the mismanagement of Afghani…
- Afghanistan, Ben Wallace, Conservatives, Defence policy, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Senior Tory demands end to ‘unseemly’ Cabinet row over Afghan crisis
Tobias Ellwood, chair of the defence select committee, says spats are damaging the UK’s global standingBritain…
- Afghanistan, Biden administration, Conservatives, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Joe Biden, Pakistan, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news, US news, US politics, World news
Yesterday’s war: why Raab did not foresee Afghanistan catastrophe
Analysis: minister’s call log shows he had little interest in Afghanistan, prioritising India and south-east A…
- Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Conservatives, Defence policy, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Imran Khan, Pakistan, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Dominic Raab seems to contradict PM by saying Taliban takeover was surprise
Foreign secretary says Afghanistan’s fall came ‘faster than anyone anticipated’ during Islamabad visitDominic …
- Afghanistan, Ben Wallace, Conservatives, Dominic Raab, Military, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Afghanistan: Raab hits back as Wallace says he knew ‘game was up’ in July
Labour calls for an end to ‘unseemly infighting at the top of government’ after response to defence secretaryD…
- Afghanistan, Conservatives, Immigration and asylum, Politics, Refugees, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Afghan refugees need help now, not in a few years. Britain’s asylum system is shameful | Mary Atkinson
A grindingly slow bureaucratic machine crushes asylum seekers, and the borders bill will only make things wors…
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It is our moral duty to take in more Afghan refugees | Letters
Readers despair at the Tory government’s treatment of the people who risked their lives to work for it in Afgh…
- Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Conservatives, Economics, Europe, European Union, Foreign policy, Politics, Rishi Sunak, South and Central Asia, UK news
‘Global Britain’ badly needs a new driver at the wheel | William Keegan
The UK’s feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters’ dream of a transfo…
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Half of Britons think US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was wrong
Support cuts across party lines, with a majority of both Conservative and Labour voters against the pulloutAlm…
- Afghanistan, Conservatives, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Dominic Raab insists he was right to delegate call with Afghan minister
Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was ‘quickly overtaken by events’Dominic Raab h…
- Afghanistan, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Conservatives, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Joe Biden, Military, Ministry of Defence, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Too little, too late: why it was panic stations in Whitehall as Kabul fell
How the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan precipitated a political one at the heart of UK governmentOn Thursd…
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‘Utterly shameful’: Dominic Raab under pressure to go after Afghanistan delays
Labour and Lib Dems say Boris Johnson has serious questions to answer over foreign secretary’s roleLabour has …
- Afghanistan, Biden administration, Conservatives, Foreign policy, Labour, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, US foreign policy, US news, World news
UK politicians decry Joe Biden’s defence of Afghanistan pullout
Senior Tory and Labour MPs united in their criticism of US president’s approach to Afghan crisisAfghanistan cr…