{"id":36434,"date":"2021-09-05T03:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/04\/senior-tory-demands-end-to-unseemly-cabinet-row-over-afghan-crisis"},"modified":"2021-09-05T03:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T18:34:20","slug":"senior-tory-demands-end-to-unseemly-cabinet-row-over-afghan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36434","title":{"rendered":"Senior Tory demands end to \u2018unseemly\u2019 Cabinet row over Afghan crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tobias Ellwood, chair of the defence select committee, says spats are damaging the UK\u2019s global standing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/04\/britain-must-rediscover-the-will-to-lead-on-global-issues\">Britain must rediscover the will to lead on global issues | Tobias Ellwood<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A senior Conservative MP is demanding an immediate end to the \u201cunseemly and unprofessional\u201d row between the foreign and defence secretaries over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/former-top-uk-civil-servant-criticises-bad-policy-afghan-exit-mark-sedwill\">Afghanistan<\/a>, warning that it is further damaging the UK\u2019s already battered reputation on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/04\/britain-must-rediscover-the-will-to-lead-on-global-issues\">Writing for the Observer<\/a> Tobias Ellwood, chair of the Commons select committee on defence, says the crisis has exposed the weakness of the UK as a global player, and calls for a complete overhaul of the way foreign policy is handled in Whitehall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/04\/senior-tory-demands-end-to-unseemly-cabinet-row-over-afghan-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobias Ellwood, chair of the defence select committee, says spats are damaging the UK\u2019s global standingBritain must rediscover the will to lead on global issues | Tobias EllwoodA senior Conservative MP is demanding an immediate end to the \u201cunseemly and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2534,"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":[46,1808,904,997,950,319,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-conservatives","category-defence-policy","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\/36434","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\/2534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36435,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36434\/revisions\/36435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}