UK’s Raab Responds to Questions About Holiday as Kabul Fell

UK’s Raab Responds to Questions About Holiday as Kabul Fell
Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab walks in Downing street in London on May 27, 2021. Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images
Simon Veazey
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has for the first time addressed questions about his being on holiday in Crete as the Taliban advanced through Afghanistan and took Kabul.

“With the benefit of hindsight I would have been back earlier, but we were all surprised by the scale and the pace of the collapse of the situation,” Raab told Sky News, denying reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had ordered him home two days before he arrived back.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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