Afghanistan

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 6 September 2021.

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Photo of Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas Green, Brighton, Pavilion 3:39, 6 September 2021

Last Friday, a young Afghan constituent told me through tears how his father—a British citizen—was turned away from the Baron hotel in Kabul on 28 August. He was trying to evacuate his other children, but he was refused permission to take two of them out of the country because they were aged 18 and 19. Can the Prime Minister imagine the pain of that family separation? All of them have stayed in Kabul, at huge risk to themselves. Will he look again at the family reunification rules and finally make it possible for families to stay together and not to have to face such a terrible choice?