{"id":43894,"date":"2022-04-26T03:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/apr\/25\/security-chief-denies-consulting-no-10-over-afghanistan-charity-evacuation"},"modified":"2022-04-26T03:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:15:43","slug":"security-chief-denies-consulting-no-10-over-afghanistan-charity-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43894","title":{"rendered":"Security chief denies consulting No 10 over Afghanistan charity evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Stephen Lovegrove tells MPs he cannot recall with whom he checked that Nowzad staff were eligible for help<\/p>\n<p>The UK national security adviser, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, has said he did not consult Downing Street before telling the Foreign Office it should allow staff from an animal charity to be listed for evacuation from Afghanistan, but said he has \u201ca far from perfect memory\u201d of precisely what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign affairs select committee is investigating leaked emails from Foreign Office staff that say Lovegrove directed that the Nowzad staff be evacuated after consulting No 10 last August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/apr\/25\/security-chief-denies-consulting-no-10-over-afghanistan-charity-evacuation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Stephen Lovegrove tells MPs he cannot recall with whom he checked that Nowzad staff were eligible for helpThe UK national security adviser, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, has said he did not consult Downing Street before telling the Foreign Office it shoul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1382,"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":[46,531,319,1879,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","category-uk-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\/43894","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\/1382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43895,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894\/revisions\/43895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}