{"id":39576,"date":"2021-12-08T06:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/dec\/07\/philip-barton-regrets-holiday-while-afghanistan-fell-to-taliban"},"modified":"2021-12-08T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:15:26","slug":"top-civil-servant-regrets-holiday-while-afghanistan-fell-to-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39576","title":{"rendered":"Top civil servant regrets holiday while Afghanistan fell to Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Philip Barton refused to say precisely when Raab had been on holiday in August<\/p>\n<p>The head of the diplomatic service has admitted failing to show leadership after he began a three-week holiday two days before the Foreign Office internally accepted Kabul was about to fall to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Philip Barton stayed on holiday until 28 August and during bruising evidence to the foreign affairs select committee, he admitted this was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/dec\/07\/philip-barton-regrets-holiday-while-afghanistan-fell-to-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Philip Barton refused to say precisely when Raab had been on holiday in AugustThe head of the diplomatic service has admitted failing to show leadership after he began a three-week holiday two days before the Foreign Office internally accepted Kabu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,904,950,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conservatives","category-dominic-raab","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\/39576","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576\/revisions\/39577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}