U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain
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On Tuesday, a major data breach which led to thousands of Afghans being secretly relocated to the UK became public knowledge for the first time. Chris joins Adam to discuss the former government’s account of events, as well as what could happen next. And, Adam speaks to Larisa Brown, Defence Editor at The Times, about how she broke the story.
Britain set up a secret scheme to relocate thousands of Afghans to the UK after a soldier accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban,
Soldiers from two specialist units have faced death and torture by the Taliban after being let down by Britain
A dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 people was released ‘in error’ in February 2022.