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They are planning to challenge the policy in the law courts was white hugh pym, many thanks. borisjohnson has rejected claims he personally authorised the airlift of animals to the uk from an afghan charity following the fall of kabul to the taliban. it comes after emails from officials suggested he'd intervened to help. labour says he's been "caught out lying". here's our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. they were desperate days. british citizens, afghans who'd worked with the british army, thousands at risk from the taliban who never made it out. but pen farthing did, along with ...

Government has always denied. those emails yesterday were seen by some as evidence that the prime minister was in some way involved. they talk about the prime minister giving his authorisation for that air left at kabul airport of 150 or so animals to take place but this was boris johnson's response earlier today. this whole thing is total rhubarb. i was very proud of what our armed services did with 0p pitting, and it was an amazing thing to move 15,000 people out of kabul in the way that we did. i thought it was also, additionally, very good that we were able to help those vets who came out ...

By the foreign affairs select committee seem to show that borisjohnson did personally authorise the evacuation from afghanistan of cats and dogs from an animal charity run by a former marine pen farthing in august last year. in the past the prime minister has categorically denied he gave the go ahead for such an operation and he dismissed claims that the government was effectively prioritising animals over people. more on that shortly but first here's our political correspondent jonathan blake. westminster is waiting. the prime minister left downing street this morning with his fate hanging in...

This is bbc news. the headlines: borisjohnson says human beings were prioritised during the fall of kabul — after suggestions he was personally involved in rescuing animals from a charity in afghanistan. this whole thing is total rhubarb. i was very proud of what our armed services did with 0p pitting. and in the next half hour, we'll be speaking to the former international development secretary rory stewart. do stay with us for that. also this afternoon: campaign groups welcome the easing of care home restrictions in england, allowing for unlimited visits from today.

Prioritised human beings and that was quite right. and i think we should be incredibly proud of 0p pitting and what it achieved. that is the case for the defence, if you like, but we keep hearing these accusations from various people that the prime minister had a role in this process. his parliamentary private secretary is said to have been involved in a lot of the discussions. she has always said it was a constituency matter but some have claimed they said the prime minister was directly involved in addition to those emails from the foreign office that we saw yesterday. listen to an animal ri...