There are “clearly” lessons to be learned from the UK’s evacuation of British and Afghan civilians from Kabul, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Wednesday.
It comes after a whistleblower said the part of the operation that was overseen by the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) was poorly equipped and badly coordinated, the prioritisation process was “arbitrary and dysfunctional,” and the FCDO’s Crisis Response structure was inadequate compared to the task.
