Animal rights campaigner Dominic Dyer claims intense lobbying of No 10 led to Johnson overruling minister
An animal rights campaigner closely involved in the rescue of Pen Farthing and his animals from Afghanistan said he was confident “pressure had been brought to bear” by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to ensure the controversial airlift could go ahead.
Dominic Dyer told the Guardian that he believed his intensive lobbying of No 10 – which included texting the prime minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, with updates “every few days” – had prompted Johnson to overrule defence secretary Ben Wallace at a critical moment during August’s chaotic evacuation of Kabul.
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