Tobias Ellwood: I got it wrong on Afghanistan clip, says Conservative MP

A elder Tory has expressed regret for posting a video successful which helium said Afghanistan had been "transformed" nether the Taliban.

Speaking to TalkTV's Piers Morgan Uncensored, Tobias Ellwood said helium "got it wrong" and has subsequently deleted the clip from Twitter.

He added that the days aft helium posted the widely-criticised video had been his "most miserable" arsenic an MP.

Mr Ellwood had tweeted the video during a travel to Helmand province.

In the film, the Bournemouth East MP and defence committee seat said corruption successful the state was falling and information had improved.

He praised the quality of star panels successful Afghanistan and noted that the country's opium commercialized had "all but disappeared".

He besides urged the UK to "re-engage" with Afghanistan diplomatically and argued that re-opening the British embassy would beryllium a mode to "incrementally" amended women's rights.

Fellow defence committee subordinate Mark Francois called the video "utterly bizarre" and accused it of "lauding the Taliban's absorption of the country".

Speaking to the BBC, Fawzia Koofi, the archetypal ever pistillate lawman talker of the Afghan parliament, said Mr Ellwood's comments showed ignorance of however restricted beingness had go for Afghan women.

Asked astir the video connected TalkTV, Mr Ellwood said: "It's important to enactment your manus up and admit errors, nevertheless good intentioned.

"I basal up, I talk my mind. I effort and find solutions particularly connected the planetary stage, and I'm very, precise atrocious that my reflection of my sojourn could person been overmuch amended worded and person been taken retired of context."