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PM personally authorised evacuation of Pen Farthing’s dogs from Afghanistan, email shows

Here's the email, and a clip of Boris Johnson rubbishing claims he had any involvement in the case.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-01-26 13:06
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Boris Johnson was caught in another lie today after a leaked email showed he personally authorised the evacuation of 173 dogs and cats from Afghanistan during an emergency airlift.

The prime minister had previously claimed he had no role in the episode, saying it was “complete nonsense” that he intervened in the case.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson denies the allegation that he prioritised the evacuation of Pen Farthing's animals over people during Britain's evacuation from Afghanistan.

Read more here: https://t.co/Kh447OpWqk pic.twitter.com/HLWWrlORN1

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 7, 2021

In an email to the department’s “special cases” team managing part of the evacuation, the official, whose name is redacted, says that the animal charity Nowaz has “received a lot of publicity”.

It adds that “the PM has just authorised their staff and animals to be evacuated”.

The government has been criticised by whistleblowers and MPs for prioritising the cats and dogs amid claims that they diverted limited resources on the ground from evacuating people.

The charity’s founder, former Royal Marine Pen Farthing, denies these claims.

Though the charity chartered its own plane and put the animals in the hold, civil servants and MPs with knowledge of the operation on the ground said the capacity constraint at the airport was a limited number of soldiers able to escort people into the airport.

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Oof. Difficult to see how this can be explained away…

No 10 repeatedly denied the claim the PM authorised the evacuation of Nowzad charity's staff/animals from Kabul.

But FCDO official states explicitly that he did, in private correspondence just released by @CommonsForeign pic.twitter.com/nYCxGvyg5T

— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) January 26, 2022

Related: ‘There are straightforward solutions’: Noam Chomsky talks Boris Johnson, climate change, Covid and Ukraine

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