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Watch live as defence secretary John Healey addresses MPs after it was revealed the Ministry of Defence used a gagging order to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

An unprecedented gagging order prevented details of the government breach being revealed for more than 600 days

For almost two years, an unprecedented order has kept a catastrophic government data breach secret

After a leak at the Ministry of Defence, officials faced a race to keep up to 100,000 Afghans from the Taliban’s clutches – with two years of court fights and rescue plans projected to cost billions, all hidden from MPs and the public. Now, after the lifting of an unprecedented…

More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in the largest covert peacetime evacuation after the MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft reports

A representative of Mr Trump’s administration joined coalition of the willing talks for the first time.

New headquarters for the coalition of the willing are to be based in Paris.

Storm Shadow, or as the French call it SCALP, is a long-range missile which has been supplied to Ukraine.

Ministers have been urged to produce a 10-year outlook revealing their intentions for equipment procurement.

Ministers close ‘lifeline’ sanctuary routes for Afghans who worked with British troops and who fought for democracy and womens’ rights

A Government document shows how the Defence Secretary considers the schemes have fulfilled their purpose so that defence efforts can be re-focused.