{"id":39574,"date":"2021-12-08T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/07\/pm-fingers-all-over-decision-to-evacuate-pets-from-kabul-says-mp-video"},"modified":"2021-12-08T07:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T22:25:56","slug":"pm-fingers-all-over-decision-to-evacuate-pets-from-kabul-says-mp-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39574","title":{"rendered":"PM &#8216;fingers all over&#8217; decision to evacuate pets from Kabul, says MP \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Foreign Office has been accused of covering up the prime minister\u2019s involvement in the decision to evacuate pets from Kabul at a select committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Labour MP Chris Bryant made the accusation to Sir Philip Barton and read out a leaked letter from Boris Johnson\u2019s parliamentary private secretary which he said implied Johnson\u2019s &#8216;fingers&#8217; were &#8216;all over&#8217; the controversial decision.<\/p>\n<p>Barton did not accept the charge and, in a separate interview, Johnson dismissed the accusation that he was involved as &#8216;complete nonsense&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/dec\/07\/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation\">Whistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/07\/pm-fingers-all-over-decision-to-evacuate-pets-from-kabul-says-mp-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Foreign Office has been accused of covering up the prime minister\u2019s involvement in the decision to evacuate pets from Kabul at a select committee hearing.Labour MP Chris Bryant made the accusation to Sir Philip Barton and read out a lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-politics","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39574","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39596,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39574\/revisions\/39596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}