Healey: ‘No justification for most names in Afghan data leak to claim asylum in Britain’

Healey: ‘No justification’ for ‘most’ names in Afghan data leak to claim asylum in Britain Source: Sky News

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00:00Isn't it that some of the people on that leaked list were applying to come here

00:04when perhaps they hadn't done anything to support British forces

00:08or fight against the Taliban?

00:11Now their names are on that list and at some sort of a risk.

00:15Does that give them automatic right to then come here and claim asylum?

00:20No, it's not just feasible.

00:23Most of those names on the list were people who didn't work alongside our forces,

00:28didn't serve with our forces, aren't eligible for the special scheme

00:33that Britain put in place quite rightly to recognise that duty

00:36we owe those brave Afghans who supported our forces.

00:40No, they're not eligible for that.

00:42Their name is on the data set and there was never the plan,

00:47never the plan to bring everyone in on that data set into this country and nor should we.

00:53It doesn't make them eligible for the special scheme that Britain put in place

00:57for those who'd worked alongside or served with our forces.

01:01And there is no justification, in my view, which is why I took the policy decision,

01:06based on this updated assessment of what's going on in Afghanistan

01:10four years on from the Taliban taking over.