Dominic Raab made an extraordinary claim about the consequence of the UK and the US creating a power vacuum in Afghanistan.
He was pictured on beach, in Cyprus, as the Taliban rolled into Kabul. Alright for some.
Remember when Dominic Raab said “hadn’t quite understood” how reliant UK trade in goods is on the Dover-Calais crossing. We try no to either.
It comes Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, has warned ministers that the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan could produce a “ricochet effect” and creates new threats against the West.
Ministers are drawing up a package of measures to persuade the Taliban to protect the UK’s security interests.
“We will use all the levers that we’ve got, whether it’s economic tools, sanctions, the diplomatic leverage,” Mr Raab told Sky News.
“I think we’re going to have to be pragmatic as the UK policy has always been.
“We’re going to need to be able to send clear messages, and our message is going to be this: Afghanistan must never be used to launch terrorist attacks against the West.”
Here is Raab saying he had no clue that the Taliban would seize power so easily.
A lot people did see this coming, who are not the foreign secretary, and slammed Raab.
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But we have left the best to last. Susie Dent, nails it in the way only she can.
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