The government signed off plans to spend £7 billion of taxpayers’ money bringing 25,000 Afghans to the UK while a 'superinjunction' kept taxpayers and MPs in the dark. It was signed off by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves and other Cabinet ministers on October 7 last year. This is duplicitous smoke and mirrors governance and an affront to democracy and taxpayers. This huge sum of public money should be fully transparent and accountable to debate within parliament. At a time when farmers, pensioners, small businesses and the disabled are being hammered by the government because of a “£22bn black hole”, secretly spending £7bn of public money on bringing 25,000 Afghans to the UK is simply unacceptable.