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Afghan relocation schemes fuelling Channel crisis two years after fall of Kabul, report finds
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023
THE government has been urged to double down on efforts to relocate Afghans in a report released on the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul today.
Cross-party law reform group Justice warned there remain “significant delays, lack of transparency, and lack of consistency to government decision-making” with its two Afghan resettlement schemes.
Cabinet minister Johnny Mercer vowed to make them “work properly” as he admitted some people left behind after the Taliban takeover have still not been brought to safety in Britain two years after the Operation Pitting evacuation.
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