{"id":39578,"date":"2021-12-08T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/letter-suggests-cover-up-of-pms-involvement-in-afghan-dog-airlift-says-mp"},"modified":"2021-12-08T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:48:20","slug":"letter-suggests-cover-up-of-pms-involvement-in-afghan-dog-airlift-says-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39578","title":{"rendered":"Letter suggests \u2018cover-up\u2019 of PM\u2019s involvement in Afghan dog airlift, says MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bryant reveals Pen Farthing was sent a letter from Boris Johnson\u2019s PPS confirming evacuation <\/p>\n<p>A leaked letter suggests Boris Johnson and the Foreign Office may have covered up the prime minister\u2019s involvement in airlifting more than 150 dogs and cats from Afghanistan, a senior MP has said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday it emerged that the charity worker Pen Farthing received a letter from Johnson\u2019s parliamentary secretary saying Farthing, his staff and the animals could be rescued from Kabul amid the Taliban takeover in August, when thousands of Afghans with UK connections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/07\/fresh-questionsdominic-raab-role-afghan-rescue-debacle\">were also trying to flee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/letter-suggests-cover-up-of-pms-involvement-in-afghan-dog-airlift-says-mp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bryant reveals Pen Farthing was sent a letter from Boris Johnson\u2019s PPS confirming evacuation A leaked letter suggests Boris Johnson and the Foreign Office may have covered up the prime minister\u2019s involvement in airlifting more than 150 dogs and c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2721,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-animals","category-boris-johnson","category-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39578","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\/2721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39578\/revisions\/39579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}