A South Tyneside MP working to ensure more than 30 people with links to South Shields were evacuated from Afghanistan said she was given the number for a washing machine repair in a Home Office communications debacle.
Boris Johnson has called a meeting of the Government Cobra emergencies committee as Taliban fighters stood poised to take control of the Afghan capital Kabul.
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