Fresh evidence Boris Johnson lied about ordering the controversial airlift of cats and dogs from Kabul has emerged, just as the Prime Minister dismissed claims he intervened as "total rhubarb".
Bombshell emails from a whistleblower showed the PM personally "authorised" the effort to get ex-marine Pen Farthing, pets and workers from his Nowzad animal charity out, in August while thousands of Afghans were desperate to flee the Taliban.
Mr Johnson tried to brush aside the emails, sent from an official in Foreign Office minister Lord Goldsmith's office and shared with a Commons inquiry into the evacuation effort, saying he did "absolutely not" approve the mission.
