Foreign Office's most senior civil servant regrets holiday as Afghanistan fell to Taliban
Speaking to the committee on Tuesday, Sir Philip said it was not clear Kabul would fall so quickly - but he refused to say when he booked his holiday.
And Conservative MP Alicia Kearns told the senior civil servant: "I don't think it is enough to say, 'mea culpa'. How in two weeks did at no point, you go, 'I can't, I have to go in and protect my people'?" The letter was reportedly from Mr Johnson's aide Trudy Harrison MP to animal charity boss Pen Farthing.
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