Almost half of Tory voters think Dominic Raab should quit as Foreign Secretary, a damning poll has found.
The survey by Savanta ComRes found 41% of those who voted Conservative thought he should quit, while just 38% did not.
The rest said they did not know, according to the poll of 2,083 British adults on August 20-22.
Overall, 51% of respondents thought the Foreign Secretary to resign, while just 24% disagreed and 26% didn’t know.
The figure was higher among Labour voters, 74% of whom think he should quit, according to the poll for Left Foot Forward.
The poll came on a torrid weekend for the Foreign Secretary, who only returned from his holiday after Kabul fell to the Taliban.
He has faced calls to resign or be sacked including from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP and Plaid Cymru.
The Foreign Secretary was reportedly told by a senior No10 official to come back from his Crete beach holiday on Friday, August 13.
But according to the Times, Mr Raab "nobbled" Boris Johnson, who agreed that he could stay at the luxury resort until last Sunday evening.
A senior Government official told the Times: "Raab was told to come back on Friday.
"On Sunday there was a sense of disbelief among everyone at the most senior levels in No 10 that he wasn’t there.
"He seems to have nobbled Boris after he was told to come back.”
Foreign Office officials had urged Mr Raab to speak to the Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar to ask for help in the desperate scramble to evacuate interpreters on the Friday before Taliban forces took control of Kabul.
But Mr Raab was said to be "unavailable" in his lavish Crete hotel - where witnesses reported seeing him on the beach paddleboarding and sunbathing.
Mr Raab defended his decision to delegate the call to junior minister Lord Goldsmith - saying he was “prioritising security and capacity at the airport”.
Labour ’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy has called for Mr Raab to be sacked or resign over his “catastrophic failure of judgement”.
