ian blackford.you for beginning the recall of parliament. it is a pleasure to follow the right honourable memberfor pleasure to follow the right honourable member for maidenhead and i hope the government will reflect very carefully on her words this morning, and particularly her remarks at the end of her contribution about the role of nato in the light of the american decision to pull out of afghanistan, because these are very real issues about the capabilities we have with nato, and if i may say so notjust the capability of nato but how we make sure the united nations has all the tools at its disposal in order to do what we expect of it as well, and these are matters we are going to have to return to in this house when we come back from recess. mr speaker, i would like to thank the government for the briefings we have had over the course of the last few days and in particular i want to commend the defence secretary for making himself available and the way he has conducted himself, and indeed thatis

i'm joined now by ian blackford, snp westminster leader. mr blackford, good afternoon to you.on. we have been with them for most of the last 20 years and we have left them in the lurch, we have left them in this situation where the taliban have taken over, and of course people are very frightened or very vulnerable to whatever the taliban are going to do will and given we place so much on education for young girls, for women, for women to go into the professions, not least become journalists, i think it is clear there are many vulnerable people and i think we've got to do is recognise that when we look at the syrian situation back in 2014, we did have a resettlement scheme for phone rope edom. the united kingdom took 20,000 people right through the silence, supported by local authorities, and we have to do the same again. and if you look at the 20,000 we took from syria, .1% of the population, that would be an equivalent number of about 35,000 from afghanistan, so asking the government to look at the way we did do in syria, to work with our evolved institutions, the local auth

the snp�*s ian blackford says he must resign or be sacked by the liberal democrat leader, sir ed daveyan takeover that kabul had already fallen by the time dominic raab got back to the uk on sunday night. and today, one of his cabinet colleagues, said there was very little be collapsing afghanistan government could have done to help. last afghanistan government could have done to help-— done to help. last friday, the aft han done to help. last friday, the afghan government _ done to help. last friday, the afghan government was - done to help. last friday, the i afghan government was melting done to help. last friday, the - afghan government was melting away quicker— afghan government was melting away quicker than ice and a phone call to an afghan — quicker than ice and a phone call to an afghan ministerat quicker than ice and a phone call to an afghan minister at that moment in time would _ an afghan minister at that moment in time would not have made a difference. what we were absolutely worried _ difference. what we were absolutely worried about and determined... were unsure _ worrie

the snp's ian blackford says he must resign or be sacked by the liberal democrat leader, sir ed daveyhe must go. so swift was the taliban takeover that kabul had already fallen by the time dominic raab got back to the uk on sunday night. and today, one of his cabinet colleagues, said there was very little be collapsing afghanistan government could have done to help. last friday, the afghan government was melting away quicker than ice and a phone call to an afghan minister at that moment in time would not have made a difference. what we were absolutely worried about and determined... were unsure about was whether the airport would remain open. that was at the front of everyone's minds. without a functioning airport, we were going to get nobody out, no matter how many phone calls you made, do a disappearing government. in a packed commons record for an emergency city yesterday, the government was accused of complacency. this phone call adds to the general impression in westminster that perhaps dominic raab has not entirely been on top of events in afghanistan. publicly, largely his coll

that's according to the snp's westminster leader, ian blackford.er. let's speak to the snp's foreign affairs spokesman, alyn smith. good morning. you have some of the detail of what the government is proposing, what do you say? we have some of the — proposing, what do you say? we have some of the detail, _ proposing, what do you say? we have some of the detail, we _ proposing, what do you say? we have some of the detail, we assuredly - some of the detail, we assuredly don't have all of it. the thing we are most worried about this timescale. the equivalent of 5000 refugees —— because there is a commitment to 5000 refugees in the short term but the other commitments are very hazy. i don't want to get into a number of all, we don't think this goes far enough or is ambitious enough but there are things we need to do to get people into the airport and out of the airport at the moment. there are urgent things needing to be done now. we don't think this is what is needed given the scale of the issue. we have based our hypothesis on the syrian refugee scal

snp's ian blackford said it was regrettable the deadline had not been extended.used boris johnson been extended. the liberal democrats accused borisjohnson of having failed on the global stage. accused boris johnson of having failed on the global stage. helen, thanks. failed on the global stage. helen, thanrs- we _ failed on the global stage. helen, thanks. we will _ failed on the global stage. helen, thanks. we will have _ failed on the global stage. helen, thanks. we will have the - failed on the global stage. helen, thanks. we will have the latest i failed on the global stage. helen, j thanks. we will have the latest on the situation in afghanistan throughout the morning and we will talk to the foreign secretary dominic raab who will be with us at 7:30am. police say they expect to spend several days searching a popular fishing spot near york as part of a renewed investigation into the suspected murder of claudia lawrence. the chef was 35 when she vanished in 2009. no—one has ever been charged. 0ur reporter alison freeman is in york for us. give us an idea of w