{"id":36328,"date":"2021-09-03T02:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/raab-hits-back-defence-minister-afghanistan-remarks"},"modified":"2021-09-03T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:50:38","slug":"dominic-raab-hits-back-at-defence-secretarys-afghanistan-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36328","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Raab hits back as Wallace says he knew \u2018game was up\u2019 in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour calls for an end to \u2018unseemly infighting at the top of government\u2019 after response to defence secretary<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Raab has hit back at his cabinet colleague Ben Wallace\u2019s assertion that he knew the \u201cgame was up\u201d in Afghanistan by July, escalating the tensions over intelligence failures between the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>The defence secretary made several pointed comments in an interview on Thursday, where he contrasted his department\u2019s handling of the Afghanistan crisis with that of Raab\u2019s embattled Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/raab-hits-back-defence-minister-afghanistan-remarks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour calls for an end to \u2018unseemly infighting at the top of government\u2019 after response to defence secretaryDominic Raab has hit back at his cabinet colleague Ben Wallace\u2019s assertion that he knew the \u201cgame was up\u201d in Afghanistan by July, escalating th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"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":[46,1808,904,950,938,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-conservatives","category-dominic-raab","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/36328","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\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions\/36347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}