15 h. ago MPs launch two probes into Government's secret immigration scheme for Afghans

Two Parliamentary inquiries were launched yesterday into the Government's secret immigration scheme for Afghans that it deemed 'at risk of death'.

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23 h. ago UK politics live: Suella Braverman apologises for Tory government ‘failures’ over Afghan data breach

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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24 h. ago UK politics live: ‘Angry’ Starmer says Tories have questions to answer over Afghanistan data breach

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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25 h. ago UK politics live: Starmer says Tories have ‘serious questions’ to answer over Afghanistan data breach

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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26 h. ago PMQs live: Starmer says Tories have ‘serious questions’ to answer over Afghanistan data breach

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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27 h. ago UK politics live: Former veterans minister hits out at ‘ineptitude’ over Afghan resettlement scheme

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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28 h. ago Healey: Accountability starts now over Afghan data leak and injunction

Thousands of people have been relocated to the UK as part of a secret scheme set up after data on Afghans who supported British forces was leaked.

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29 h. ago UK politics live: Defence minister warns ‘accountability starts now’ after Afghan data breach

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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38 h. ago Ministers STILL won't come clean on secret airlifts after the Mail revealed 18,500 Afghans were brought to Britain as part of £7BILLION scheme

Defence Secretary John Healey's emergency explanation to Parliament appeared at odds with facts heard at secret High Court hearings over the last two years.

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41 h. ago MoD official responsible for catastrophic Afghan data breach that cost billions still works for government

Email blunder potentially put up to 100,000 people at risk and triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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43 h. ago As it happened: Farage attacks government’s handling of Afghan resettlement scheme

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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46 h. ago Afghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the Afghanistan Response Route?

We would like to hear from Afghans who have arrived or are due to arrive in the UK under the Afghanistan Response RouteThousands of Afghans have been relocated to the UK under a secret government scheme following a data leak.Personal information about more than 33,000 Afghans seeking relocation to the UK after the Taliban takeover was released in error by a defence official. Fears that the individuals named would be at risk from reprisals from the Taliban led the last government to set up a secret relocation scheme, the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR), involving 20,000 people. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Revealed: Secret scheme to relocate thousands from Afghanistan after massive personal details leak blunder

Defence Secretary John Healey offers ‘sincere apology’ for the breach which sparked a secret Afghan relocation scheme - and an unprecedented legal cover-up

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49 h. ago Thousands offered UK asylum in secret scheme after personal data of Afghans who helped British forces leaked by mistake – live

Dataset containing details of thousands of Afghans who applied for relocation to UK released ‘in error’ in 2022Helen Miller is taking over as director of the Insitute for Fiscal Studies thinktank this week, taking over from Paul Johnson, who established himself as the nation’s leading budget commentator.Budget commentary tends to focus on the Treasury’s fiscal rules, on how much “headroom” is available to Rachel Reeves (spare cash in the budget – based on spending plans and anticipated tax revenue, based on the OBR’s growth assumptions), and whether tax or spending plans need to change because the OBR’s forecasts have shifted.Labour came to office with the promise of a ‘mission-driven’ government – a commitment to long-term thinking and systemic reform. The ambition that we should be ‘raising our sights as a nation’ and finding ways to tackle the big challenges we face is the right one.Despite this, we continue to limp from fiscal event to fiscal event, obsessed with whether run of ...

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50 h. ago UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme after data leak and gagged media

‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 25,000 were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals

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50 h. ago UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme and gagged media after data leak

‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 100,000 people were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals

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50 h. ago I faced the threat of jail for exposing ministers' secret £7bn migration scheme and saw first

Never before had I witnessed such an extraordinary scene in almost 30 years of reporting from the Press benches of the Royal Courts, writes SAM GREENHILL.

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50 h. ago Ministers fear there could be riots as British towns with hundreds of Afghan arrivals finally learn WHY

The Ministry of Defence has warned of possible public disorder following the revelations that thousands of Afghans have been quietly slipped into Britain.

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50 h. ago Inside 'Operation Rubific': How clandestine £7billion migrant scheme was sparked by a British soldier's email blunder

Amid great secrecy and alarm, Operation Rubific was launched. It was one of the biggest peacetime evacuations in modern UK history: rescuing Afghans whose names were on a leaked database.

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2 w. ago Afghan resettlement schemes for those who supported UK suddenly closed by government

Ministers close ‘lifeline’ sanctuary routes for Afghans who worked with British troops and who fought for democracy and womens’ rights

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