Dominic Raab insists he was right to delegate call with Afghan minister

Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was ‘quickly overtaken by events’

Dominic Raab has confirmed he delegated a phone call with the Afghan foreign minister to a junior, and argued that it was the correct thing to do, in his first statement on events that have prompted widespread calls for him to be sacked.

In a brief statement, the foreign secretary said that last Friday while he was on a family holiday in Crete, his private office was advised to call his Afghan counterpart, Hanif Atmar, but instead this was done by a junior minister.

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