Скачать или смотреть In Full: Healey addresses Commons over secret Afghan asylum scheme

Britain has offered asylum secretly to nearly 24,000 Afghan soldiers and their families caught up in the most serious data breach in history, it can be revealed.

The leak, which can be reported following the lifting of a superinjunction, has pushed the cost of bringing Afghan refugees to Britain to as much as £6 billion, the MoD has admitted, threatening to open up a new black hole in the nation’s finances.

The revelation is set to overshadow Rachel Reeves’s Mansion House speech on Tuesday night, at a time when the Chancellor is already considering raising taxes in the autumn to balance the books.

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