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Welcome to a special Q&A episode of the newsagents following this extraordinary week following the Afghan data breach

and all the court cases that Lewis has been at the centre of for the last two years.

And we start with a question from Dan Brack and Neil on Spotify.

Although the data breach and super injunction were bad,

why have the Labour government decided not to continue helping Afghan people who helped the UK?

It's a great question, Dan, and one that I, if you've listened to our interview with John Healy, which we did on Tuesday night, you will have heard me put to him.

I think the reason is, is that the government feels that given that thousands

and thousands of people have been brought to the UK, at least 7,000 of whom would never

have been brought to the UK, were it not for the fact they were on the data set, they

probably wouldn't have been eligible. If you asked John Healy about it, and he basically said

this to us at a sort of secret briefing that we had on Monday

night with the sort of relevant journalists in the sort of heart ministry defence. We were pressing

him on this then. And he said, look, it can't be the case that we have complete liability or

debt to 100,000 people. We can't, we're not in a position to take that many people from

Afghanistan. And I think, you know, that is a legitimate position.

But nonetheless, I think a lot of people will find curious the fact, and I certainly find

curious that, as I said, and I've been saying all week, I sat in that courtroom for two years,

and government lawyer after government lawyer after government lawyer said that the Secretary of State

believed, and that was initially Grant Shaps and then John Healy. The Secretary of State believed, and that was initially

Grant Shaps and then John Healy, the Secretary of State's position was that if knowledge of this

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