Every day the UK doesn’t honour its promise to the Afghans who have helped us leaves a stain

Editorial: Two years since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the government is still dragging its heels over offering sanctuary to those who have given so much

It is shaming that the pilot for whom we have campaigned, who served with both British and US forces, is now looking to the United States to help him (The Independent )

This is not a campaign by soft-hearted wet liberals, the Labour Party or lefty lawyers. As Rachel Hopkins, the shadow veterans minister, told The Independent: “Britain’s moral duty to assist Afghans is felt most fiercely by UK forces they served alongside.”

Those who have supported our campaign to grant asylum to the pilot who came here by small boat across the Channel, and to speed up the resettlement of thousands of other brave Afghans, include a wide range of former military top brass, but also senior Conservatives and an array of patriotic establishment figures.

Our debt to those Afghans who worked with our armed forces during the two decades of our direct involvement in that country ought not to be a matter of party politics. But if it were, as a matter of national honour it ought to find more support towards the patriotic, establishment end of the spectrum. Which is why the refusal of Rishi Sunak and Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, to engage with the case for urgent action is so inexplicable.