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'Serious Questions' Over UK Secret Afghan Relocations: PM

Some 900 Afghans and 3,600 family members have so far been brought to Britain under the scheme (Credit: AFP)

Ministers in the UK's last Conservative government have "serious questions to answer" over a secret resettlement plan for thousands of Afghans after a data breach endangered their lives, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday.

Parliamentary Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said the affair raised significant constitutional issues" after it emerged that the previous government had obtained a court order banning media coverage and preventing any scrutiny by parliament.

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