Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has branded the government’s refusal to reveal how many Afghans evacuated to the UK could pose a security risk a “clear dereliction” of its duty to protect the British public.

Using the Freedom of Information Act, Breitbart News Network had asked the Priti Patel-run Home Office to disclose how many Afghan evacuees were “found to have previously been on ‘no-fly’ or ‘no-entry’ lists” or to “have previously been deported from the United Kingdom” after Germany and Sweden had both admitted that some of the people they evacuated from Afghanistan had been previously deported, including some considered criminals and security threats.

The Home Office had responded to the news website that it would not reveal the figures, because they did not deem it in the public interest to do so.

Responding to the revelation, Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney told Breitbart London that it is “the job of the Home Office to protect the British public, not every person in unfortunate circumstances on earth. For the Home Office to refuse to disclose to the public whether asylum seekers pose a security threat is a clear dereliction of that primary duty.”

Mr Harris-Quinney continued: “The Bow Group warned at the time that the scramble to fly thousands of Afghans to the UK following the disastrous military evacuation of Kabul posed a serious security risk.”

“At one point Afghan citizens were being loaded onto evacuation planes without any passport or identity checks, let alone detailed security checks,” he added.

Read the full article here at Breitbart News Network.

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