The foreign and defence secretaries openly squabbling over what went wrong is a sign of dysfunction in Johnson’s cabinet
Dominic Raab’s appearance before the foreign affairs select committee was more notable for what he didn’t say than what he did. After a fortnight of criticism over his department’s handling of the crisis in Afghanistan, the foreign secretary left plenty of questions unanswered.
In a tetchy appearance, Raab refused to be drawn 10 times on when exactly he went on holiday to Crete, could not put a number on the number of Afghans eligible to be resettled in Britain who were left behind, and blamed military intelligence failures for his being taken by surprise by the speed at which Kabul fell.