カテゴリー: Conservatives
A recent visitor to South Korea compares the country’s approach to Covid management with that of the UK We are just back from six weeks in Seoul, South Korea, and suffered a real culture shock on our return. In South Korea, there is not a soul without…
Government has prioritised rescue of current scholars but estimated 70 alumni are still in countryA group of former Chevening scholars have accused the British government of abandoning them in Afghanistan, where they say their lives are at grave risk f…
Mark Newbury highlights the lack of support for refugees, David Beswick writes of the mismanagement of Afghanistan evacuations and Dr Richard Carter draws attention to the UK’s diminishing influenceNesrine Malik’s excellent article (For Afghan refugees…
Tobias Ellwood, chair of the defence select committee, says spats are damaging the UK’s global standingBritain must rediscover the will to lead on global issues | Tobias EllwoodA senior Conservative MP is demanding an immediate end to the “unseemly and…
Analysis: minister’s call log shows he had little interest in Afghanistan, prioritising India and south-east AsiaDominic Raab has been reluctant to criticise Joe Biden, who has faced an unprecedented wave of criticism over the US exit from Afghanistan,…
Foreign secretary says Afghanistan’s fall came ‘faster than anyone anticipated’ during Islamabad visitDominic Raab has said there was widespread surprise including among the Taliban at the speed with which the group swept to military victory in Afghani…
Labour calls for an end to ‘unseemly infighting at the top of government’ after response to defence secretaryDominic Raab has hit back at his cabinet colleague Ben Wallace’s assertion that he knew the “game was up” in Afghanistan by July, escalating th…
A grindingly slow bureaucratic machine crushes asylum seekers, and the borders bill will only make things worseHorrifying scenes are unfolding in Afghanistan. Taliban forces are reportedly going door to door, making blacklists of anyone who has worked …
Readers despair at the Tory government’s treatment of the people who risked their lives to work for it in AfghanistanYou have to admire the genius of the UK’s refugee policy: first, no one who gets here unofficially can be considered for asylum and the…
The UK’s feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters’ dream of a transformed nation wasSo much for Global Britain. The fiasco and tragedy of the retreat from Afghanistan have laid bare the folly of the Brexiters’ F…
Support cuts across party lines, with a majority of both Conservative and Labour voters against the pulloutAlmost half of the public believes that the US decision to end its military involvement in Afghanistan was wrong, according to a new Observer pol…
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…
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…
Labour and Lib Dems say Boris Johnson has serious questions to answer over foreign secretary’s roleLabour has questioned whether Dominic Raab should remain as foreign secretary, describing his behaviour as “utterly shameful” after it emerged he delegat…
Senior Tory and Labour MPs united in their criticism of US president’s approach to Afghan crisisAfghanistan crisis: live updatesSenior British politicians have called on the government to repudiate Joe Biden’s comments on Afghanistan, saying the UK sho…