Tom Tugendhat: Kabul blasts are ‘what defeat looks like’
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee said the West no longer has any say over the future of Afghanistan.
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee said the West no longer has any say over the future of Afghanistan.
Raab faced criticism for not returning from Crete when the Taliban took control of Kabul.
Paul Farthing along with his 173 cats and dogs is on course to be evacuated thanks to an apparent intervention from the PM.
Abdul married his Afghan wife Fatima just days before the country fell.
Farthing begged the Taliban to let him board a private charter flight to Britain.
The 24-year-old said he was about to refuse his evacuation flight, but his mother persuaded him to leave with his pregnant wife.
"Well done Dan for doing what a journalist should do: ask for the facts and the truth," said one Twitter user in support.
"I wonder if 'The sea was actually closed' will be remembered as prominently as an alibi as 'It was almost impossible for me to sweat'" wrote one Twitter user.
So much for "people over pets", Mr. Defence Secretary.
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