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Afghanistan: Raab hits back as Wallace says he knew ‘game was up’ in July
Labour calls for an end to ‘unseemly infighting at the top of government’ after response to defence secretary
Dominic Raab has hit back at his cabinet colleague Ben Wallace’s assertion that he knew the “game was up” in Afghanistan by July, escalating the tensions over intelligence failures between the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence.
The defence secretary made several pointed comments in an interview on Thursday, where he contrasted his department’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis with that of Raab’s embattled Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.