Zac Goldsmith has insisted that an official who worked in his private office was mistaken when they emailed last August to say Boris Johnson had authorised the rescue of Pen Farthing and his charity’s cats and dogs from Kabul.
The Foreign Office minister told the House of Lords the email “was not sent under my instruction” and that the decision to clear Farthing’s flight had in fact been “communicated by the defence secretary publicly in tweets” on 25 August.
