The government and its allies have been heavily criticised for how it pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving the country in the hands of the Taliban.
The UK helped to chase the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan in 2001. Two decades later, the militants took it back in a matter of days after Allied forces announced they would be pulling out of the country.
Some people grabbed onto the outside of a plane as it took off whilst heartbreaking footage shows parents blindly hand their babies to western soldiers. One poster read ‘stop the oppression of Afghan women’. Others said the UK should take in more refugees, while another sign warned: ‘This can lead to World War Three’.
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