Claims that Boris Johnson gave the all-clear for cats and dogs to be flown out of Afghanistan have been backed by another Foreign Office whistleblower.
Mr Casey acknowledged to the committee: ‘It’s possible I deleted the emails. My email box was exploding. I had to focus on the emails addressed directly to me.’
No 10 has argued that emails describing his personal involvement were a mistake explained by the ‘frenetic time’. The news comes after civil servant Raphael Marshall revealed an email that said ‘the PM has just authorised’ the evacuation of the animals She said the sheer amount of lobbying done by MPs on behalf of cases that had been highlighted to them meant ‘that most of the focus of the special cases team was on tracking down correspondence or data on individuals with connections, when it could otherwise have been spent identifying and ensuring we helped the most vulnerable people’.
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