David Lammy visits Afghanistan to highlight humanitarian crisis

Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungry

The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has flown to Kabul to see at first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

Lammy is the first senior British politician to visit the country since the west's chaotic pullout last August. He is being accompanied on his visit by Preet Gill, the shadow minister for international development.