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It is “clearly not good enough” that documents identifying Afghan workers and job applicants were found on the ground at the British diplomatic mission in Kabul, Ben Wallace has admitted.
The defence secretary said Boris Johnson “will be asking some questions” about how the papers were left unsecure.
We’ll find out and get to the bottom of it. The evidence looks pretty clear. Clearly it’s not good enough, simple as that. I think the prime minister will be asking some questions, I think we need to understand, quite rightly, how that happened.
How @FCDOGovUK handled this crisis will be the subject of a coming @CommonsForeign inquiry. The evidence is already coming in.https://t.co/3edJLkIZGe
The DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he is seeking urgent clarification from the UK government about people from Northern Ireland who remain in Afghanistan, PA reports.
The UK has entered the final stages of its Kabul evacuation and no more people will be called to the airport to leave, the Ministry of Defence has said.
Whilst I understand absolutely the need to protect our armed forces and the civilian staff who are working at Kabul Airport, I am concerned that perhaps there remain British citizens who haven’t yet been transported, evacuated out of Kabul.
I am seeking clarity on that from the Foreign Office and the Home Office today. That includes some Northern Ireland citizens whose cases I have been dealing with. I hope that by now they are in the airport compound and will be transported home but those are matters that we need to clarify.
That is correct. I just hope that a way can be found to help those people be evacuated.
Some of them work for NGOs, for charities, doing humanitarian work. I just don’t know what attitude the Taliban will take to such organisations now and therefore our thoughts are with the families here at home who are so anxious and distressed about what they are seeing on their TV screens and deeply worried about their loved ones.
I am aware of cases that fit that category and they remain in Afghanistan at this moment of time, including aid workers who work for an Irish aid agency, some of whom come from Northern Ireland.
My understanding is that they have not yet been evacuated but I am seeking clarification on that and I will be raising this with the Irish prime minister today and giving him specific details of those cases.
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