what they re looking for at the moment is some sort of accommodation, relying on taliban help, to keep this airlift going smoothly, but the g7 is the critical moment to watch. damian grammaticas. tom tugendhat chairs the foreign affairs committe and served in afghanistan he s spoken this morning about a friend travelling with his family to try to escape from the taliban. last night i was speaking to a guy that used to work with me over ten years ago, as an interpreter. he told me that he was going to risk a drive at night with his wife and his five children. i ve got two kids and i can tell you that driving with kids isn t easy, but at night on a war zone, on potholed roads, you wouldn t do that unless you are desperate. he is doing that because he is
and i ve only got two kids, and i can tell you, travelling with kids isn t easy, but to drive at night in a war zone on potholed roads, i mean, you wouldn t do that unless you were desperate. and he s doing it because he s looking for a way out, and you will understand i spent a bit of a sleepless night this evening, or rather last night, and i m very glad that he has checked in this morning. i am also very glad that, through the night, foreign office and home office staff have been working absolutely flat out and have secured him, quite rightly, the permission to come to the uk. just the night before the taliban took over kabul, we were with friends in cafes, i went to shopping, and life was normal, totally normal. and also in the morning of sunday, like, on sunday morning president ghani published a video telling the people of afghanistan that everything will be