it took a lot of support across whitehall, in defra, the home office, the foreign office, and in downing street itself. i m not certain why the prime minister never embraced his role in this project, because it was humanitarian, primarily. the royal college of veterinary surgeons and the british vetrinary association wrote an open letter to him in the middle of august, when i started the animal rescuers campaign, which made it very clear that we have vets and ver nurses animal care assistants within the charity and other charities on the ground in afghanistan who were under threat, particularly the women, and we had manyjobs for them in the uk, where we have lots of vacancies across the veterinary care sector. the prime minister understood those arguments, accepted them, and did put those people on the evacuations, working with the home and foreign secretaries to get the wheels of whitehall working. we did inform him come that we had a billionaire in the us to fund the aircraft. and we