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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Dan Bloom & Ellie Kemp

Boris Johnson DID order Afghan animal rescue and officials 'must have' lied, says whistle blower

A whistle blower has claimed that Boris Johnson DID order the controversial airlift of an animal rescue charity in Afghanistan and a top officials “must have” deliberately lied about it.

A second Foreign Office worker suggested it was widely known the order for Nowzad staff came from the PM, according to a new testimony which has been published.

Josie Stewart, Head of Illicit Finance in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), said she spoke out after being put in “an impossible situation in which my conscience could not tolerate what FCDO required of me.”

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