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I'm sorry I haven't a clue: Dominic Raab and Boris Johnson. Mr Raab admitted it was 'very difficult to give a firm figure' on how many people Britain had failed to rescue from the Taliban
LABOUR’S Diane Abbott slammed Tory ministers for being in denial over Afghanistan today, after Dominic Rabb claimed the number of British nationals left behind was in the “low hundreds.”
The Foreign Secretary was also unable to give a definitive figure on how many Afghans Britain had failed to airlift to safety after the Taliban seized power in mid-August.
Mr Raab told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It’s very difficult to give you a firm figure. I can tell you that for UK nationals, we’ve secured since April over 5,000, and we’re in the low hundreds (remaining).”
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP