The British Army and government have admitted there could be hundreds people left in Afghanistan as the Taliban is set to fully take over.
Speaking to Sky News, Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MP and the chair of the U.K. parliament's foreign affairs committee, said that the fallout from the Taliban retaking Kabul following a 20-year war could result in the biggest hostage crisis the U.K. has ever seen.
"We'll be looking to see what that means for getting British citizens out, what that means for getting entitled people out, and protecting those people who, quite rightly, are literally in fear of their lives now."is"what defeat looks like" as the Taliban regain control of the country. "We have no influence over Kabul anymore. We have no influence over the behavior of the Taliban except by asking them nicely and luring them with aid to help people who they'll be quite happy to kill. So frankly, what influence that is, I'm not very convinced."
Herbert said:"The sense of betrayal, and the abandonment of particular those who served alongside us, that not just be interpreters, but of being left behind, but also the local staff, not all of those who fought alongside us.
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