Boris Johnson has said he will “shift heaven and earth” to get people out of Afghanistan after August 31 as he confirmed British deaths in the “contemptible” attack at Kabul airport.
Speaking to broadcasters after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed the deaths, the Prime Minister said he felt “a great sense of regret” about those left behind in Afghanistan, as the evacuation process enters its final stages.
Asked about the deaths of two British adults, and a teenager who was a child of a British national, he said: “I think what their loss really underlines is the urgency of getting on and concluding Operation Pitting in the way that we are, and also underlines the bravery of our armed services, our troops, everybody else involved.”
The PM admitted: “Of course, as we come down to the final hours of the operation there will sadly be people who haven’t got through, people who might qualify.
“What I would say to them is that we will shift heaven and earth to help them get out, we will do whatever we can in the second phase.”
When asked whether the scenes seen in Afghanistan amounted to a national humiliation, he said: “It’s certainly not something that… the timing of this is certainly not the one that this country would have chosen, and I think that everybody understands that.”
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