Dominic Raab ‘faces axe’ after up to 9,000 people left stranded in Afghanistan

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DOMINIC Raab was last night clinging to his job with Boris Johnson “exasperated” at his handling of the Kabul crisis.

Insiders say the beleaguered foreign secretary is facing the axe after up to 9,000 Brits and eligible Afghans were left stranded.

Officials believe 1,000 more people could have been rescued had Dominic Raab ended his Crete holiday earlier.

The PM is said to be furious that he failed to negotiate safe routes out.

Officials believe 1,000 more people could have been rescued had he ended his Crete holiday earlier.

Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer called it “unconscionable”.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘We have been working tirelessly to evacuate over 15,000 people from Afghanistan in the last two weeks.

“We always cautioned that the nature of the security situation in Afghanistan and our responsibility to keep our people safe meant that we would not be able to evacuate everyone we wanted to.

“Our efforts have now turned to doing everything we can to help any remaining British nationals and the Afghans who supported us leave Afghanistan safely.”

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