Chair of foreign affairs committee says up to 4,000 stranded British have not been told if they will be rescued

The UK Foreign Office does not appear to have learned the lessons of the evacuation from Afghanistan, judging by its communications with British nationals in Sudan, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee has said.

Alicia Kearns estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 British nationals were in Sudan, of whom at least 1,000 had asked for help to leave.

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