Britain PM Boris Johnson, on Monday, will face lawmakers about the UK's handling of the Afghanistan crisis and failure to predict how quickly the Taliban would sweep through the country amid criticism of handling evacuation of Britons from Afghanistan. Johnson is likely to face questions from MPs as to how the thousands of Afghans who couldn't be airlifted on time will be resettled. Johnson will also tell veterans how he plans to “do right” by those who served in Afghanistan.
The Taliban forces have claimed to have taken control over the Panjshir valley, which was home to the Taliban resistance movement over 20 years ago when the militant group had taken control over Afghanistan.
US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, will arrive in Qatar seeking a united front with regional allies shaken by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab admitted that both the US and the UK miscalculated the Taliban's capacity to seize control. Lawmakers have criticised Johnson over intelligence failure over the Taliban takeover and Johnson has admitted that in light of the US' decision to pull out troops from Afghanistan, left Britain with very little choice but to pull out its forces.
Johnson has said that he would use “every economic, political and diplomatic lever” to help Afghans.
Other topics that would be discussed at the Parliament today would be the worse labour crunch Britain is facing since the 70s as per the Confederation of British Industry; Saadi Gaddafi, 48, son of the former ruler Muammar Gaddafi, who was ousted and killed after the 2011 uprising was released after being detained for over ten years. Gaddafi's brother Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could run in presidential elections which will take place in December. Another topic on the agenda would be Social Market Foundation think tank saying that the UK should back the development and sale of artificial meat to tackle the climate crisis and the official Committee on Climate Change saying that meat consumption in the UK should be brought down by more than a third by 2050.
