Saturday 30th of March 2024

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The prime minister says "nearly 16,000 people" have been evacuated from Afghanistan in an operation that was "was planned and prepared for months".

Mr Johnson also said if the Taliban political figures wanted engagement with the West, they would have to prioritise safe passage for those that want to leave.

 

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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is coming under fire for his handling of the aftermath of the fall of Afghanistan.

He's been criticised for remaining on holiday in Crete while the Taliban marched back to power, but insists he's been across the detail throughout and in touch with the key players.

He has rejected opposition calls for him to quit after it emerged that neither he, nor any other minister, had called the Afghan government to discuss the evacuation of translators stranded in the country.

The Conservative MP, who was a leading member of the campaign to get the UK out of the EU, is no stranger to controversy, having hit the headlines for his statements on topics as diverse as poverty and "taking the knee".

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In 2017, Mr Raab was branded "offensive" by then-Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron after saying "the typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty; it's someone who has a cash flow problem".

But in June that year he returned to government, as a justice minister, this time middle-ranking rather than junior.

In Mrs May's January 2018 reshuffle he became housing minister - one of the highest-profile non-cabinet roles in government.

And in July that year, when David Davis quit, the prime minister promoted Mr Raab to Brexit secretary, a cabinet post.

Yet his improved relationship with Mrs May did not last long. In November 2018, he quit, arguing that he could not "in good conscience" support the "backstop" arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.

As an influential Brexiteer, his comments were seen as significant in increasing opposition to Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU, which MPs repeatedly rejected.

After Mrs May announced she was standing down, Mr Raab entered the contest to become Conservative leader, and prime minister.

 

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"Everybody got it wrong" on how quickly the Taliban would take over Afghanistan, the head of Britain's armed forces has said.

Gen Sir Nick Carter told the BBC: "It was the pace of it that surprised us and I don't think we realised quite what the Taliban were up to."

Asked whether military intelligence was wrong, he said the government received intelligence from a variety of sources.

"It's not purely about military intelligence," he said. 

The last British and US troops left Afghanistan a week ago, bringing their 20-year military campaign in the country to an end.

There has been criticism of the way the West withdrew from Afghanistan, with questions over how the Taliban was able to seize control of the country at such speed. 

 

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told MPs last week the intelligence assessment had been that there would be a "steady deterioration" in the security situation in August but it was "unlikely Kabul would fall this year". However, the Taliban took over Kabul in mid-August.

Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Sir Nick was asked how the predictions had been wrong.

 

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While the gathering of "Intelligence" is often accurate, the delivery of assessments is always fraught with lies and distention of outcomes. I am sure that had someone like J C Masterman been in charge of analysis, he would have told you and a dust bin with a hat, the speed of the Taliban advance within one second. Why? It is a question of understanding the psychology of human nature. Masterman would have been able to calculate the cave-in of the Afghan army within a nano-timeframe. I am sure that some people in the CIA and at MI-6 have been as clever as Masterman. But this is not what the authorities wanted to hear. What we wanted to hear was: Our 20 year-magnificently training of the Afghan army would see these soldiers die before surrendering... Are you kidding? Please make your brain tickatick...

 

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The United Kingdom says it is postponing the start of post-Brexit border checks on goods going to Northern Ireland as it seeks breathing space in its tense stand-off with the European Union over trade rules.

Brexit Minister David Frost said the government would continue to trade “on the current basis,” maintaining grace periods that the UK gave itself after splitting from the EU’s economic embrace at the end of 2020.

He did not set a new end date for the grace periods, some of which had been due to finish on September 30.

 

Mr Frost said the standstill would “provide space for potential further discussions” with the EU over the two sides’ deep differences on the Brexit divorce agreement.

UK-EU relations have soured over trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK that has a land border with the 27-member bloc.

The divorce deal the two sides struck before the UK’s departure means customs and border checks must be conducted on some goods moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the country.

The regulations are intended to prevent goods from the UK entering the EU’s tariff-free single market while keeping an open border between Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland – a key pillar of Northern Ireland’s peace process.

But the checks have angered Northern Ireland’s British unionists, who say they amount to a border in the Irish Sea and weaken Northern Ireland’s ties with the rest of the UK.

One of the deferred measures, which had been due to take effect on October 1, would ban chilled meats such as sausages from England, Scotland and Wales from going to Northern Ireland.

The “sausage war” has been the highest-profile element of the UK-EU dispute, raising fears that Northern Ireland supermarkets may not be able to sell British sausages, a breakfast staple.

The trade tensions have destabilised Northern Ireland’s delicate political balance and raised tensions with the EU, which is calling for the UK to implement the deal it agreed to, and with the UK government, which says the rules need fundamental reform.

 

The UK government is seeking to remove most checks, replacing them with a “light touch” system in which only goods at risk of entering the EU would be inspected.

Mr Frost warned last week that the UK and the EU risked entering a long period of “cold mistrust” unless issues around the agreement were resolved.

The UK’s previous unilateral extension of the grace period angered the EU, which responded by launching legal action.

The bloc has since put that action on hold and the two sides have taken tentative steps to cool the situation.

Monday’s announcement by the UK was made with the advance knowledge of the bloc.

Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he expected the EU would agree to an extension of the grace periods in order to allow for “deep and meaningful” talks with the UK.

 

Read more:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2021/09/07/brexit-northern-ireland-border-checks-delayed/

 

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