Wallace rejects claim Afghans with ‘tenuous’ links to UK admitted as ex-Tory minister says resettlement scheme was ‘hapless’ – live

Johnny Mercer, former veterans minister, sharply critical of how Afghan resettlement programme handledAfghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the Afghan Response Route?John Healey told Sky News that the Afghans named in the spreadsheet that was accidentally leaked listing people who had applied for resettlement in the UK were not automatically eligible to come to this country.The defence secretary said:Most of those names on the list were people who didn’t work alongside our forces, didn’t serve with our forces, aren’t eligible for the special scheme that Britain put in place quite rightly to recognise that duty we owe those brave Afghans who supported our forces.Now they’re not eligible for that. Their name is on the dataset, and there was never the plan, never the plan, to bring everyone in on that dataset into this country, and nor should we.It doesn’t give them a right to claim access to Britain. It doesn’t give them a right to claim asylum. It doesn’t make them eligible for the special scheme that Britain put in place for those who’d worked alongside or served with our forces.Because we came into government a year ago and we had to sort out a situation which we’d not had access to dealing with before.So that meant getting on top of the risks, the intelligence assessments, the policy complexities, the court papers and the range of Afghan relocation schemes the previous government had put in place. Continue reading...

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