{"id":39613,"date":"2021-12-09T03:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/08\/doubts-cast-on-no-10-claims-about-letter-clearing-dog-airlift-out-of-kabul"},"modified":"2021-12-09T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:40:57","slug":"doubts-cast-on-no-10-claims-about-letter-clearing-dog-airlift-out-of-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39613","title":{"rendered":"Doubts cast on No 10 claims about letter clearing dog airlift out of Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 says Trudy Harrison gave permission as an MP rather than in her capacity as aide to Boris Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Allies of animal charity boss Pen Farthing and a Labour MP have cast doubt on Downing Street claims about a letter by Boris Johnson\u2019s parliamentary aide Trudy Harrison giving him permission to be evacuated from Kabul in August.<\/p>\n<p>No 10 said Harrison was \u201cacting in her capacity as a constituency MP\u201d when she wrote the letter \u2013 as it continued to insist that Boris Johnson had not ordered the rescue of Farthing and his cats and dogs ahead of desperate Afghans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/08\/doubts-cast-on-no-10-claims-about-letter-clearing-dog-airlift-out-of-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 says Trudy Harrison gave permission as an MP rather than in her capacity as aide to Boris JohnsonAllies of animal charity boss Pen Farthing and a Labour MP have cast doubt on Downing Street claims about a letter by Boris Johnson\u2019s parliamentary a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"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":[46,265,531,904,284,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-animals","category-boris-johnson","category-conservatives","category-pets","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39613","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39614,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39613\/revisions\/39614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}