Taxi for Dominic Raab? The Foreign Secretary is under fire after revelations in today’s Daily Mail (19 August) that, despite advice from his officials that a call to his Afghan opposite number Hanif Atmar needed to come from him, the call was passed down the food chain to Zac Goldsmith, the junior minister on duty, while Raab holidayed in Crete last week.
The Mail is calling on Raab to resign over his failure to intervene to help airlift Afghan interpreters out of the country, as are Labour and the Liberal Democrats. And while Conservative MPs aren’t quite ready to join in these calls to resign, they aren’t far off. Both Raab and Boris Johnson’s appearances in parliament yesterday disappointed and irritated Tories.
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