{"id":36325,"date":"2021-09-03T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/former-top-uk-civil-servant-criticises-bad-policy-afghan-exit-mark-sedwill"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:06:15","slug":"uk-has-no-coherent-plan-for-afghan-refugee-crisis-says-ex-whitehall-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36325","title":{"rendered":"UK has no coherent plan for Afghan refugee crisis, says ex-Whitehall chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sedwill also attacks west\u2019s withdrawal as a \u2018bad policy, badly implemented\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Britain and its allies have no coherent plan to deal with the huge refugee crisis expected to follow the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan, a former cabinet secretary has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sedwill, a former ambassador to Afghanistan and senior adviser to two British prime ministers, said the emergency airlift out of Kabul had only helped \u201crelatively small numbers\u201d and greater pressures were likely to emerge as people fled overland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/former-top-uk-civil-servant-criticises-bad-policy-afghan-exit-mark-sedwill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sedwill also attacks west\u2019s withdrawal as a \u2018bad policy, badly implemented\u2019Britain and its allies have no coherent plan to deal with the huge refugee crisis expected to follow the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan, a former cabinet secretary has w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1884,"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":[46,1204,319,4,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-civil-service","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-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\/36325","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\/1884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36346,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions\/36346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}