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In it she urges the government to step up the evacuation efforts from afghanistan and says there are safety concerns for people trying to leave the country. earlier my colleague ben boulos spoke to her. my office is in touch with hundreds of people at the moment, many of them filtered through labour mps but also coming directly to me through my inbox, through whatsapp, through friends in afghanistan. raising many of the issues that your report hasjust put out there. you know, the fact that people are being beaten, shot at, turned back at checkpoints. the fact that people are being asked to carry documentation that links them to the united kingdom in order to prove their eligibility but that is the documentation that makes them a target for the taliban who are checking those documents en route. there are no safe corridors to the airport, there are makeshift camps that have sprung up where people are being beaten, and even reports of rapes. and so i ve been asking the government today ....
You know, the fact that people are being beaten, shot at, turned back at checkpoints. the fact that people are being asked to carry documentation that links them to the united kingdom in order to prove their eligibility but that is the documentation that makes them a target for the taliban who are checking those documents en route. there are no safe corridors to the airport, there are makeshift camps that have sprung up where people are being beaten, and even reports of rapes. and so i ve been asking the government today to step up those efforts, to work with nato allies, to see if we can open up a safe corridor. the united states has done that and it may be possible for us to get our people safe passage through. we need some security and support at the airport and at the baron hotel where applications are being processed. we need more flexibility about the documentation that people are being asked to provide and we need to step up the capacity that we ve got, so i ve made a series of ....