British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has previously denied prioritising the evacuation of animals while people wait after the Taliban took over in Afghanistan, it has emerged.
Johnson was accused of prioritising the evacuation of animals in Afghanistan last August, according to CNN, following tweets from British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. He said it would be wrong to prioritise pets while thousands wait at the airport. He later wrote that authorities had allowed him to facilitate the evacuation of the animals.
A former British Foreign Office employee reiterated the charges against Johnson last December.
However, Johnson said on December 7, 2021, that the allegations that he had allowed the animals to be evacuated were “complete nonsense.”
Internal correspondence published yesterday by the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and emails provided by Raphaeel Marshall, a retired Foreign Office official in the UK, revealed that Johnson was not telling the truth.
‘Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister allowed the evacuation of staff from the Nowzad animal charity,’ the correspondence, dated August 25, states.
A second correspondence sent later in the day said that Nowzad, as well as another organization, had asked for the evacuation of his staff.
Nowzad said he had no knowledge of how the animals were ordered released from Afghanistan in these leaked correspondence.
These developments come at a time when the British Prime Minister has been accused of violating anti-epidemic restrictions by organizing parties at a time when coronavirus measures are being tightened.
