The latest report from the Commons public accounts committee (PAC) is a damning indictment of the way the Ministry of Defence has dealt with the resettlement of Afghan nationals who’d served the UK in various capacities during the long “war on terror” that ended in some disarray in August 2021.
Despite long efforts – successful for a time – to cover up the astonishing and extremely costly incompetence on the part of the officials at all levels, the truth about the scale of the bungling emerged at last a few months ago when a superinjunction was lifted.
