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7 Dec 2021

Whistleblower evidence of Kabul evacuation ‘deeply disturbing’, says shadow foreign secretary

A former diplomat has claimed that many Afghans were abandoned to their fate at the hands of the Taliban during a “chaotic” and “dysfunctional” evacuation.

We spoke to the shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, and started by asking him what he thought when he first saw the whistleblower’s evidence?