Ashdown: Allow Afghan interpreters to settle in UK

The government has a "debt of honour" to bring around 450 Afghan interpreters who have helped British servicemen to settle in the UK, says Lord Ashdown.

A legal firm is preparing to take ministers to court over their failure to draw up a plan, although the US, New Zealand and Norway have offered their interpreters a resettlement programme.

The former Liberal Democrat leader said there were daily killings of Afghans who have helped western forces, and he said Number 10's position was "unsupportable and untenable".

He said: "I cant understand why the government is thinking about it", when he spoke with Jo Coburn and Toby Young on the Daily Politics.

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