Sam McPhail and John O’Neill

Sam McPhail is deputy director of research, and John O’Neill is director of research at The Spectator

Where are the resettled Afghans living in Britain?

This week, we learned that three years ago a Ministry of Defence official accidentally released details of 18,714 Afghans who had applied for relocation to the UK. The Afghans, who had worked with British armed forces, feared retribution from the Taliban, so the Conservative government introduced a new scheme, alongside existing programmes, to resettle some