Thread by @tamcohen

Morning,

UK will resettle 5,000 vulnerable Afghans this year, rising to 20,000 in future.

Priority for women, girls, religious minorities at risk from the Taliban.

Separate from ARAP scheme for locally employed staff which is set to relocate 5,000 people this year.

Boris Johnson will tell MPs today, as Parliament debates Afghanistan:

"We owe a debt of gratitude to all those who have worked with us to make a Afghanistan a better place over the last 20 years.

"Many of them, particularly women, are now in urgent need of our help"

Scathing criticism expected from some Conservative MPs who say it should be more generous - David Davis suggests "north of 50,000".

Labour say it "does not meet the scale of the challenge" and risks leaving people in Afghanistan "in deadly danger".

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/afghanis…

Priti Patel writes in the Telegraph says vulnerable Afghans face a "chilling future".

But she warns that "Britain cannot do it alone" just after Emmanuel Macron spoke of need for Europe to "protect ourselves against major irregular migratory flows"

Priti Patel tells @KayBurley any resettlement scheme must be deliverable - hence 5,000 in first year.

"We cannot accommodate 20,000 people in one go", she says.

The home secretary says the Canadian scheme for 20,000 is just an "aspiration" and includes locally employed staff.

Priti Patel tells @KayBurley there could be more than 10,000 people brought over under the scheme for translators and other locally employed staff.

The govt have committed to 5,000 this year, but she says it could be far higher if circumstances allow.