{"id":39307,"date":"2021-11-28T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T07:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/28\/tory-anger-grows-over-priti-patels-failure-to-start-resettling-stranded-afghans"},"modified":"2021-11-28T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T07:45:20","slug":"tory-anger-grows-over-priti-patels-failure-to-start-resettling-stranded-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39307","title":{"rendered":"Tory anger grows over Priti Patel\u2019s failure to start resettling stranded Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs said to have confronted home secretary over \u2018moral obligation\u2019 to deliver refugee programme announced in August<\/p>\n<p>Priti Patel is facing growing criticism from Tory MPs over the Home Office\u2019s failure to open a programme to allow Afghans to resettle in Britain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/uk-to-take-20000-afghan-refugees-over-five-years-under-resettlement-plan\" title=\"\">three months after it was announced<\/a> \u2013 as the crisis over the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/several-people-dead-migrant-boat-capsizes-channel\" title=\"\"> deaths of 27 people in the Channel<\/a> escalates.<\/p>\n<p>Some Conservative MPs are understood to have confronted the home secretary directly over the delay in launching the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), which was announced with great fanfare in August as the Taliban seized control in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/28\/tory-anger-grows-over-priti-patels-failure-to-start-resettling-stranded-afghans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs said to have confronted home secretary over \u2018moral obligation\u2019 to deliver refugee programme announced in AugustPriti Patel is facing growing criticism from Tory MPs over the Home Office\u2019s failure to open a programme to allow Afghans to resettle in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2702,"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":[46,904,4,481,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conservatives","category-politics","category-priti-patel","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\/39307","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\/2702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39308,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions\/39308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}