UK government makes U-turn on Afghan embassy guards

All of the 125-member security team will now be given the right to enter the UK

The government has made a dramatic U-turn on its refusal to offer support to a team of 125 Afghan guards who protected the British embassy in Kabul, and has promised they will all be granted the right to enter the UK.

The decision followed growing criticism of the government's rejection of applications for help for all the Afghan national members of the embassy security team, because they had been hired through an outsourced contractor.