Watch again: Dominic Raab faces grilling from MPs over Afghanistan withdrawal

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Dominic Raab faced a grilling from MPs of the foreign affairs committee on Wednesday as they sought to understand “what he’s done in the last four months” to help Afghanistan.

The Foreign Secretary appeared during an extraordinary session from 2pm.

Tom Tugendhat MP, the committee chairman, earlier told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he praised the work of other foreign ministers such as Germany’s Heiko Maas, who has been building alliances with counterparts in central Asia as part of a longer-term strategy for dealing with the geopolitical consequences of the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan.

Read more on our politics live blog: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/01/dominic-raab-afghanistan-withdrawal-foreign-affairs-select-committee/

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Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture. the Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain, praised the work of other foreign ministers such as Germany’s Heiko Maas, who has been building alliances with counterparts in central Asia as part of a longer-term strategy for dealing with the geopolitical consequences of the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan.

Read more on our politics live blog: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/01/dominic-raab-afghanistan-withdrawal-foreign-affairs-select-committee/

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