The White House has made an extraordinary intervention in the case of an Afghan pilot threatened with deportation to Rwanda by pledging to look into his case as the UK government continues to stall.
The air force lieutenant, who flew combat missions in support of UK and US forces and was praised by his supervisor as a “patriot to his nation”, fled to the UK in a small boat after the fall of Kabul because it was “impossible” to find a safe and legal route.
