A BRADFORD MP has hit out at the Government, calling it 'unforgiveable' that vulnerable Afghans and British nationals had been left behind in Kabul.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Imran Hussain, MP for Bradford East, claimed constituents’ families had been “forcibly removed from flights and thrown out of Kabul airport onto the streets”.
He said: “The Government leaving vulnerable Afghans and British nationals behind is unforgiveable, but what is completely and utterly reprehensible is that the families of two of my constituents, including a seven-month-old child, were forcibly removed from flights and thrown out of Kabul airport onto the streets where the scene of the horrific suicide bombing (happened) hours before.
“I am absolutely furious and I want to ask the Prime Minister how on earth was this potentially fatal decision allowed to happen even after I raised these matters with ministers sat to his left and his right, and how many others were ejected from the airport into harm’s way and just what does he have to say to the families that the Government has now put in grave danger?”
In response to Mr Hussain's comments, Prime Minister Boris Johnson: “I have to tell him that I’m told we have no evidence of anybody being pulled off flights, but obviously I would ask him to raise the particular cases directly with (ministers).”
Mr Hussain raised the issue on Twitter last month, directly putting his original query to the Government's Secretary of State for Defence, Rt. Hon Ben Wallace MP.
Mr Hussain's tweet said: "Extremely distressing case this morning of a constituent's wife and two very young children about to board an evacuation flight in #Kabul before being stopped, handed to US troops, and now kicked out of the airport to fend for herself. How was this allowed to happen @BWallaceMP."
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