The "serious systemic failures" of the Afghanistan evacuation by the Foreign Office lowered the UK's global standing, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
A damning report from the Foreign Affairs Committee said Afghan allies and British soldiers were "utterly let down by deep failures of leadership" in the government during the August 2021 evacuation of Afghan translators and others who worked alongside British troops for more than 20 years.
Tom Tugendhat, the Conservative chair of the committee, said those failures have had "huge implications" for the UK as it inspired Vladimir Putin and others "to think that we weren't serious" - which "allowed him to believe that he could attack Ukraine without us reacting".
The committee has called for the head of the Foreign Office, Sir Philip Barton, to resign over the leadership failures that lead to Afghans who were Taliban targ...
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