Fresh from his Crete holiday, Dominic Raab appeared at the Foreign Affairs Committee looking tense and awkward. The Foreign Secretary has been dragged to an extraordinary meeting of the panel specially convened in spite of the parliamentary recess to answer questions about the collapse of Afghanistan and rushed evacuation of the Western powers.
Raab’s session overstretched to almost two hours and saw a range of hostile questions from right across the House. A glowering Tom Tugendhat ambushed the embattled minister with his department’s principle risks report from July 21 warning of collapse of Afghanistan while a deluge of questions about the Crete holiday were met by Raab’s insistence that such queries were just a ‘fishing expedition.’ And Mr S thought that ‘the beach was closed‘ on Raab’s seaside sojourn…
Below is Steerpike’s guide to the four most awkward moments from Raab’s Kabul cross-examination.
Grilled over his holiday
One of many variations on the theme of Raab’s holiday was one from SNP defence spokesman Stewart McDonald who pointed out the discrepancies on leave between military personnel and Foreign Office staff. McDonald
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