Conservative MP calls UK’s evacuation from Afghanistan a ‘humiliation’
The 20-year presence and now evacuation from Afghanistan of UK’s troops made the MP to state publicly that UK lacked patience, strategy and statecraft NEW DELHI — Tobias Ellwood, a UK Conservative politician, described the withdrawal of British troops and Afghans who worked for British forces during the US-led coalition’s 20-year stay in Afghanistan a ‘humiliation’. He commented that UK was finally out from Afghanistan after 20 years, and his country had got very little to show for it. In the end, as per the lawmaker, UK lacked the patience to see it through, let alone the strategy and statecraft. He described the UK’s evacuation from the war-torn country as a ‘humiliating’ way to return. The MP Ellwood, who leads the parliament's Defence Select Committee, was speaking to Sky News on Sunday evening as the last plane carrying refugees from the Central Asian country was ready to land at the Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire, England. The Operation Pitting As per the MP,