Minister says e-mails wrong about PM Johnson authorising animals’ Kabul evacuations

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson played no part in authorising the evacuation of animals from Kabul during theMr Johnson, whose premiership is under immense pressure over allegations ofhas dismissed as nonsense accusations that he intervened to ensure the safety of the Nowzad rescue charity's animals run by former British soldier Paul"Pen" Farthing.

In an internal government e-mail released by Parliament's foreign affairs committee, a foreign office official, whose name is redacted, wrote:"Nowzad, run by an ex-Royal Marine, has received a lot of publicity and the PM has just authorised their staff and animals to be evacuated..." British Defence Minister Ben Wallace, whose department led the Kabul evacuation effort, echoed those words.

"They certainly don't show the reality, which was I was in charge. The Prime Minister never asked me. It was nonsense," Mr Wallace told BBC TV.

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