Why the Afghan data breach isn’t just a Tory problem
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Questions are still mounting after the super-injunction imposed on The News Agents - to stop us reporting the story of a catastrophic data breach that put up to 100,000 Afghan allies at risk - was lifted.
Who bears the heaviest burden of responsibility for creating this mess?
Emily, Jon and Lewis discuss the questions that the Tories, who imposed the super injunction in 2023, need to face up to - and why Labour, who upheld the super-injunction for nearly a year, must also be held accountable.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. And yesterday the Defence Secretary set out the full extent of the failings that we inherited. |
| 0:18.9 | A major data breach. |
| 0:22.1 | A super injunction. |
| 0:24.0 | A secret route that has already cost hundreds of millions of pounds. |
| 0:28.9 | Ministers who served under the party opposite have serious questions to answer about how this was ever allowed to happen. |
| 0:36.9 | The chair of the Defence Committee has indicated that he intends to hold further inquiries. |
| 0:42.0 | I welcome that and hope that those who were in office at the time will welcome that scrutiny. |
| 0:47.2 | After one of the biggest acts of incompetence ever committed by the British state, |
| 0:52.9 | at Prime Minister's questions, not a single backbench MP thought to rise to ask him |
| 0:59.5 | to rule out whether super injunction should ever be used in this way ever again to deny Parliament |
| 1:06.1 | its right to know what the government is doing and why. |
| 1:13.6 | 24 hours on from the lifting of that super injunction, who is going to pay the political price and who will be asked the questions |
| 1:20.1 | about what happens next? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:28.2 | The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. It news agents. |
| 1:29.9 | It's John. |
| 1:30.7 | It's Emily. |
| 1:31.3 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:32.2 | And what an extraordinary 24 hours. |
| 1:35.8 | What an extraordinary two years for you, Lewis, kind of tied up with this court case that |
| 1:41.0 | was never ending and only with the injunction lifted yesterday. |
| 1:46.2 | I just wonder, given how closely you followed it, and given what we have heard from the |
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