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27 Aug, 3 tweets, 2 min read

Johnson: Are you the guys inundated with all the emails from everywhere in the world saying, please help my son, mother in Afghanistan? I've had a few of those

Raab: It was extraordinary that they all stayed after the #KabulAiport attack

Johnson: Amazing, amazing

#Newsnight

https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/status/1431388332509089792?s=20

Longer clip with the introduction from Newsnight

https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/status/1431388332509089792?s=20

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab:

"Do we know if the crowd has thinned out yet because of the terrorist attack? Thought it was extraordinary they all stayed…"

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