A Government programme to help former interpreters for British forces in Afghanistan has failed to bring a single one to safety in Britain, a new report has found.
MPs on the Defence Committee blasted the Intimidation Scheme set up to help civilians at risk of reprisals from the Taliban after working for coalition forces during the UK's fighting presence in the country.
The scheme seemed to go to "considerable lengths" to stop the relocation to the UK of interpreters and other locally employed civilians (LECs) who were threatened and intimidated, they found.
The failure of the scheme to bring even a single person to the UK was in marked contrast to a second programme, known as the Redundancy...