{"id":35337,"date":"2021-08-17T03:47:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-crisis-pm-boris-johnson-ended-summer-holiday"},"modified":"2021-08-17T03:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:47:53","slug":"afghanistan-crisis-johnson-took-holiday-as-kabul-was-about-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35337","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan crisis: Johnson took holiday as Kabul was about to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former senior military and security figures say PM\u2019s decision to depart was \u2018dereliction of duty\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Afghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s departure on holiday on Saturday, despite public warnings the Taliban would be in Kabul within hours, has been criticised as a \u201cdereliction of duty\u201d by former senior military and security figures.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged on Monday that the prime minister and the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, took their summer holidays at the same time before both taking the decision to return.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-crisis-pm-boris-johnson-ended-summer-holiday\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former senior military and security figures say PM\u2019s decision to depart was \u2018dereliction of duty\u2019Afghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flightsBoris Johnson\u2019s departure on holiday on Saturday, despite public warnings the Taliban would be i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2402,"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":[46,531,904,950,319,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-conservatives","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","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\/35337","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\/2402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337\/revisions\/35338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}