🔴 Boris Johnson's chief of staff Dan Rosenfield spent the day at a cricket match three days before the fall of Kabul, raising further questions about Number 10's role in the operation to rescue UK and Afghan nationals telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🏏 Dan Rosenfield, the PM's chief of staff, accepted hospitality tickets to a weekday match at Lord's on Aug 12, a day before a senior Number 10 figure – said to have been Mr Rosenfield – ordered Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, to return from a holiday in Cyprus
📅 Nine days later, on Aug 21, Mr Rosenfield returned to Lord's for another match, this time on a Saturday.
On the same day, officials were finalising plans to send hundreds of paratroopers back to Afghanistan to carry out a major evacuation from Kabul airport
On the same day, officials were finalising plans to send hundreds of paratroopers back to Afghanistan to carry out a major evacuation from Kabul airport
The disclosure is likely to raise further questions about Number 10's role in the operation to rescue UK and Afghan nations under threat from the Taliban.
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