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Hello, London to Coffee House Shultz, Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyfe.

James, the team as leading the newsagent today relates to a whistleblower for the Foreign Office.

Yes, Raphael Marshall, who was a Foreign Office fast streamer,

has written a 40-page submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into what happened

of the Afghan evacuation, that paints a kind of very damning picture of how it was handled, of kind

of chaos with no one who could speak the local languages involved in processing these claims

at the London end. At one point,

the Foreign Office and the Diffid IT systems, remember those two departments have just been

integrated, not really speaking to each other, seven soldiers sharing one laptop at one point,

all of which I think paints a very chaotic picture. And there's also two other things that I think will attract particular attention.

One is the accusation that the pen farthings, animals, were kind of prioritised.

And that meant that other human beings couldn't have been helped.

And the whistleblower alleges that that was on number 10's instruction.

And then the other thing

is an accusation, well, an implication, I think more than an accusation, that one of the reasons

that the UK government had to make contact with the Taliban government is that advice it had

given to a former British soldier who was then running a company in Afghanistan,

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