The UK Foreign Office’s evacuation effort from Afghanistan was “chaotic” and “dysfunctional”, and pleas for help from thousands of desperate Afghans fleeing the Taliban were ignored, a whistleblower has claimed.
Raphael Marshall, who worked for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as a desk officer in London, claimed the then foreign secretary Dominic Raab “did not fully understand the situation”.
He said the FCDO received between 75,000 and 150,000 evacuation applications by Afghans who were in danger due to their connections to the UK, but estimated that fewer than “5 per cent” of these people obtained any assistance.
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