If you saw The Times yesterday, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the campaign has been a success and we could all go home:

Hundreds of interpreters and their families are to be given assistance to leave Iraq, where they live under fear of death squads because they collaborated with British forces. Those wishing to remain in Iraq or relocate to neighbouring countries will be helped to resettle.

However, there has yet to be a formal announcement and the word is that the Foreign Office doesn’t know about this change in policy. As we’ve seen this week, stories spun to the media shouldn’t necessarily be taken at face value.

The speaker meeting at Parliament on October 9 (this coming Tuesday) is still going ahead. It’s still not too late to invite your MP along. The tireless Dan Hardie has all the details of what you need to do.

UPDATE: Dan Hardie: Wait and see

I have always said, when writing to Jacqui Smith and other Ministers, that to pre-announce asylum for Iraqi employees before they’d actually been taken to safety would increase the risks to them and to the British soldiers who would have to evacuate them. I hope desperately that this won’t happen. I also hope that we will see a genuine promise of resettlement for all who are identified as being seriously at risk for having worked for the British in Iraq.