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Tory anger grows over Priti Patel’s failure to start resettling stranded Afghans

MPs said to have confronted home secretary over ‘moral obligation’ to deliver refugee programme announced in August

Priti Patel is facing growing criticism from Tory MPs over the Home Office’s failure to open a programme to allow Afghans to resettle in Britain, three months after it was announced – as the crisis over the deaths of 27 people in the Channel escalates.

Some Conservative MPs are understood to have confronted the home secretary directly over the delay in launching the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), which was announced with great fanfare in August as the Taliban seized control in Kabul.

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