Thread by @tnewtondunn

Boris Johnson's statement to a recalled Parliament tomorrow on Afghanistan is a very big moment. He has huge calls to make overnight to define UK foreign policy in light of Biden's 'America First' paradigm shift. I've talked to MPs. Here are 8 questions they want him to answer:

1. What historical perspective will the PM overlay on why the 20 year mission ended in catastrophe? There is bitter Cabinet disagreement. Ben Wallace’s sadness over the West failing Afghanistan, or Dominic Raab’s proposition that nation building was long doomed?

2. How does he account for the dramatic Western intelligence failure that didn't foresee the Afghan government collapse so quickly that he and his Foreign Secretary were caught short on holiday? The failing that created this week's pandemonium and international embarrassment.

3. Could Johnson personally have done more to avert this week's disaster? Knives are out for Raab's Foreign Office across Whitehall on this. There is deep anger that Ben Wallace was alone in trying to assemble a coalition to take the departing US’s place...

...I'm told the FCDO had no interest in joining the MoD effort to find only an extra 3,000 troops and accompanying air power that would have replaced the US's footprint, despite ample warning. One scathing senior official describes Raab as “a low grade, risk-averse lawyer”.

4. Fresh questions tonight about whether the government's resettlement scheme for Afghan refugees - just announced tonight. Is it big enough? It will take a total of 20,000, while SNP say it should take 35-40,000 to match Syria, and David Davis says “north of 50,000”.

5. How will Britain safeguard against the multiple threats of a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan? Mitigate Islamist terrorism if it's given a new safe haven? A fresh wave of immigration from fleeing refugees? A deluge of cheaper heroin? What, if any, leverage does the UK now have?

6. The Biden problem: what is the PM's relationship now with a President who cut him out of the biggest foreign policy decision his premiership will see, and over a joint mission? Can the UK ever rely on the Biden presidency again? How critical will the PM dare to be of Biden?

7. Will the PM now order an inquiry into the UK's mission in Afghanistan? It cost £28 billion and the lives of 457 service personnel. Everyone knows major mistakes were made along the way. Will he protect our future troops by publicly learning those albeit painful lessons?

8. Finally, what more will the PM do now to help the 150,000 or so UK veterans of the Afghan conflict, many of who will struggle to ever come to terms with how the mission ended, having lost friends, limbs or both there? Help For Heroes are already reported an upsurge in demand.

More on Johnson’s huge day on @TimesRadio tomorrow after 8am.