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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Woodcock

Foreign Office apology over evidence on airlift of animals from Afghanistan

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The Foreign Office's top civil servant has apologised to a parliamentary committee for misleading evidence over memos linking Boris Johnson to the evacuation of dogs and cats belonging to ex-Marine Pen Farthing from Afghanistan.

And a senior member of the committee said it was now "difficult to have confidence that MPs are getting full answers from the department about the controversial airlift.

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