A senior official at the Foreign Office has apologised for misleading MPs over whether Boris Johnson intervened in the evacuation of animals from Kabul during the chaotic retreat from Afghanistan last August.
Sir Philip Barton, the Foreign Office’s permanent undersecretary, told the foreign affairs committee that Nigel Casey, the prime minister’s special representative for Afghanistan, had not received any correspondence referring to an intervention by Boris Johnson in the evacuation of animals from the Nowzad charity.
