UK to welcome 20,000 Afghans amid Taliban takeover
Some 5,000 refugees will be eligible under a new scheme in the first year, on top of 5,000 Afghan staff. …
Among those to criticise the scheme was Tory MP Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee, who told the Daily Mirror it was a “woefully inadequate response”, citing the government capping numbers at 5,000 for the first year when “the threat is at its greatest”.