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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Natasha Froes, and I'm joined by our regular James Heel and our not-so-regular on Coffee House Shots, Freddie Gray.

The regular.

The irregular guest. What?

Churchill had an irregular core in the World War II.

Now, James, an extraordinary story today has been revealed about the Afghan resettlement scheme

and a super injunction that has covered up a big story to do with it since 2022. Tell us about it.

Yeah, absolutely. So back in February 22, a British official was trying to assess whether people should from Afghanistan be eligible for resettlement in the UK under the Afghan scheme. Unfortunately, as a result of their blundering on a computer, they sent the details of nearly 19,000 people out to the

wrong email addresses.

18 months later, this appeared then on Facebook, which were ministers were informed, and

details of the people at risk were seeping out.

The result of this, the government decided that it would enable all those people who were on

the list to get out of the country.

And so 24,000 people have now come here.

This $7 billion was put aside for the cost of this scheme. And it has been subject to an unprecedented

super injunction, which stopped details coming out. Superjunction was extended by John Healy

after the election in 2024. And the superjunction has been in place now for almost two years

since August 2023. So the upshot is that 24,000 people have come here as a result of government failure, which has costed £7 billion, and nothing's been able to be reported about it until today. So it is a shocking scandal. And just another example of how deep the rot in the British state goes, I don't think it's going to be party political in a sense that, you know, you have the spectacle today of John Healy making his comments in a very grave demeanour, and then being responded to by James Cutledge, who the shadow defence secretary, who had to apologise at the big start by saying, I was also the defence minister at this time, you know, when this happened in the last government. I don't think particularly the Labour government would have made things any different. Very much the sense coming out of Westminster today is that,

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