{"id":35335,"date":"2021-08-17T03:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/16\/row-in-cabinet-over-evacuation-of-uk-diplomats-from-kabul-defence-secretary-foreign-office-mod"},"modified":"2021-08-17T03:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:53:59","slug":"row-erupts-in-cabinet-over-evacuation-of-uk-diplomats-from-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35335","title":{"rendered":"Row erupts in cabinet over evacuation of UK diplomats from Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: defence secretary accuses Foreign Office of leaving MoD staff to handle visa fallout, say sources<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet splits have emerged over Afghanistan, with the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, accusing the Foreign Office of evacuating diplomats while leaving soldiers and Ministry of Defence staff to handle the fallout of the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>The frustrated minister told colleagues he believed there would be \u201ca reckoning\u201d for the Foreign Office after the crisis, sources told the Guardian. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/16\/row-in-cabinet-over-evacuation-of-uk-diplomats-from-kabul-defence-secretary-foreign-office-mod\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: defence secretary accuses Foreign Office of leaving MoD staff to handle visa fallout, say sourcesCabinet splits have emerged over Afghanistan, with the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, accusing the Foreign Office of evacuating diplomats while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1808,319,1879,2290,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-ministry-of-defence","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35362,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35335\/revisions\/35362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}