Good morning and welcome to Morning Glory. It's three minutes past six.

Excuse me and very good morning. Welcome to Wednesday. It is of course the new day.

It's Wednesday, 16th of July and quite frankly this morning.

I'm almost speechless about how we're going to start this show because the story that we're about to unravel for you

is so ridiculous, so heinous, so incredible and so utterly damning of the governments of this

country, though I scarcely know where to begin. Theo, I should see it with me. We're going to be

talking through for the best part of this morning. There's lots of other stories, of course, as

there always are. But this Afghan scandal, which you may have heard about if you've been in any way awake or alive over the course of the last 24 hours.

It didn't break until after we finished our show yesterday.

But it has broken now, and it's all over the front pages, and it has been all over the news for the best part of the last several hours.

But if you are just waking up and you don't know what's happened, we are going to be absolutely shocking you with the news that there's been 7 billion pounds spent on a cover-up by the government which started under the Tories and continued under Labour, was revealed yesterday.

Because of a data breach that happened some years ago, 19,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan

were put at risk of being killed by the Taliban. Ministers spent millions of pounds secretly

housing them in the UK, bringing them to this country in their thousands with their wives,

with their children, putting them into private accommodation,

putting them into hotels, pulling them into, in some cases, military bases, and deciding,

absolutely and utterly, without any second thought, to hide it from the British public,

so that we were never supposed to know. They took out what's called a super injunction,

which we'll explain over the course of the next four hours, in order to make sure that the intimate details of this story never saw the light of day. They now have come out, and quite frankly, it is a damning indictment of the way that our government, whichever colour it is, has been working for the past several years. We're going

to be exploring all sorts of legal ramifications. We're going to be asking you whether,

you know, you kind of realise, we all did. We all walks around going, there seems to be a lot

of Afghanistan people around. There seems to be an awful lot of migrants around. Turns out that

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