{"id":39571,"date":"2021-12-08T01:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T16:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/afghanistan-boris-johnson-airlift-animals-dominic-dyer"},"modified":"2021-12-08T01:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T16:34:53","slug":"pm-must-have-pushed-for-airlift-of-animals-from-kabul-activist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39571","title":{"rendered":"PM must have pushed for airlift of animals from Kabul, activist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal rights campaigner Dominic Dyer claims intense lobbying of No 10 led to Johnson overruling minister<\/p>\n<p>An animal rights campaigner closely involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/ex-marine-pen-farthing-and-pets-cleared-for-afghanistan-evacuation\">rescue of Pen Farthing and his animals from Afghanistan<\/a> said he was confident \u201cpressure had been brought to bear\u201d by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to ensure the controversial airlift could go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Dyer told the Guardian that he believed his intensive lobbying of No 10 \u2013 which included texting the prime minister\u2019s wife, Carrie Johnson, with updates \u201cevery few days\u201d \u2013 had prompted Johnson to overrule defence secretary Ben Wallace at a critical moment during August\u2019s chaotic evacuation of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/afghanistan-boris-johnson-airlift-animals-dominic-dyer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal rights campaigner Dominic Dyer claims intense lobbying of No 10 led to Johnson overruling ministerAn animal rights campaigner closely involved in the rescue of Pen Farthing and his animals from Afghanistan said he was confident \u201cpressure had bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2720,"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":[46,265,531,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-animals","category-boris-johnson","category-politics","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\/39571","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\/2720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39572,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39571\/revisions\/39572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}