The Armed Forces minister has said the UK will continue to bring Afghans to the UK “for as long as people who are eligible want to come” as troops who airlifted more than 15,000 people from the country are set to receive a medal for their efforts.
James Heappey told LBC that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) continued to bring around 250 people a week out of Afghanistan mostly through Pakistan, despite the winding down of Operation Pitting in August last year, and that this would continue “indefinitely”.
