{"id":36175,"date":"2021-08-30T17:46:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/uk-had-to-prioritise-people-at-kabul-airport-for-evacuations-says-minister"},"modified":"2021-08-30T17:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:46:33","slug":"uk-had-to-prioritise-people-at-kabul-airport-for-evacuations-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36175","title":{"rendered":"UK had to prioritise people at Kabul airport for evacuations, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Cleverly describes \u2018flood of requests\u2019 for help after reports that emails about Afghans may have gone unread<\/p>\n<p>The UK evacuation effort from Afghanistan had to focus on people already at Kabul airport meaning many cases raised by MPs and others may not have been looked at, a Foreign Office minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>James Cleverly did not deny that a large numbers of emails about Afghans potentially eligible to leave the UK might still be unopened in official inboxes, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/revealed-foreign-office-ignored-pleas-help-afghans-mps-evacuation\">revealed by the Observer<\/a>. There had been \u201ca flood of requests\u201d for help, Cleverly said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/uk-had-to-prioritise-people-at-kabul-airport-for-evacuations-says-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cleverly describes \u2018flood of requests\u2019 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1879,494,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-refugees","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36176,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36175\/revisions\/36176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}