{"id":45279,"date":"2022-06-08T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jun\/08\/david-lammy-visits-afghanistan-to-highlight-humanitarian-crisis"},"modified":"2022-06-08T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:00:17","slug":"david-lammy-visits-afghanistan-to-highlight-humanitarian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45279","title":{"rendered":"David Lammy visits Afghanistan to highlight humanitarian crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungry<\/p>\n<p>The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has flown to Kabul to see at first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Lammy is the first senior British politician to visit the country since the west\u2019s chaotic pullout last August. He is being accompanied on his visit by Preet Gill, the shadow minister for international development.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jun\/08\/david-lammy-visits-afghanistan-to-highlight-humanitarian-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungryThe shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has flown to Kabul to see at first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban ta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,247,2675,319,393,902,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-david-lammy","category-foreign-policy","category-humanitarian-response","category-labour","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/45279","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45280,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279\/revisions\/45280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}