Exclusive: Ministers 'blindsided themselves' by ignoring a warning about the implications of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, it has been claimed
Lord Alton, a cross-bench member of the committee, said recent events had shown the report was"only too prescient" and had"excoriated" the government.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News:"The government has known that US troops were withdrawing for 18 months. The Lords committee had advised that US and other western forces should wait for the Taliban and Afghan government to reach a peace agreement, in talks in Doha that had been going on for the past year, before pulling out.
The UK should make clear to the Americans that"ongoing US military and diplomatic engagement is essential to achieving a successful negotiated settlement and that further US and NATO troop withdrawals should be paused," the committee's report continued.
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