'Significant delays' in UK's Afghan resettlement scheme two years after Taliban takeover
106A cross-party law reform and human rights organisation has criticised what it says are "significant delays, a lack of transparency and a lack of consistency" in the Government's policy to relocate Afghan staff who supported British Armed Forces in Afghanistan.
The schemes have been branded too slow and there are suggestions people desperately fleeing the Taliban have felt forced to make dangerous crossings across the English Channel instead, with new figures revealing that Afghans have been the most common nationality to arrive on small boats in the first half of this year, according to the latest provisional data from the Home Office.
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