Boris Johnson has been slammed for his comments about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan by Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway.
The Prime Minister spoke yesterday, Sunday, as the Taliban seized the capital Kabul and the Presidential Palace.
Over the last couple of days the group has taken large parts of the country after NATO forces, including Brits, packed up and left.
On Sunday, the Tory PM said: "I think it is very important that the West should work collectively to get over to that new government, be it by the Taliban or anybody else ,that nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror and we don't think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status."
Kate Garraway took aim at Johnson questioning if the last 20 years of the UK being in Afghanistan was a "gigantic failure".
Speaking on GMB, she said: "So, has the whole thing just been a gigantic failure?
"You hear Boris Johnson saying ‘Oh we mustn’t let this becoming a place for terror to breed’, but it’s going to be!
"What’s going to stop it?"
On the show she was in conversation with co-presenter Charlotte Hawkins and guests Kevin Maguire, Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror, and Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell.
Platell said that even if the UK wanted to send troops to Afghanistan to help, the cuts to the defence budget make it too difficult.
Garraway said: "I suspect there will be lots of people who say ‘enough is enough’."
Maguire interrupted to say the presence of the West in Afghanistan had been a "20-year experiment".
Garraway replied: "I don’t know, Kevin, because if you’re the Taliban and you’re in there listening and you hear all these people are going, if you’re a government in such an unstable part of the world, you just feel like the forces that have been supporting you are abandoning you, don’t you?
"They must be ingrained over so many centuries, the inevitability of that kind of that kind of their political system coming back over.
"It just must have felt inevitable and they were better to run and flee for their safety rather than get to another massive conflict."
British troops are racing against the clock to get remaining UK nationals and their local allies out of Afghanistan.
Lead elements of 16 Air Assault Brigade were working with US forces to secure Kabul airport to ensure flights can continue as Afghans and foreigners alike scramble to leave.
While the airport has so far not come under attack, there are fears that could change quickly with Taliban insurgents now effectively in control of the capital.
Triumphal fighters were pictured in the presidential palace abandoned by President Ashraf Ghani who fled the country while his forces gave up the city without a fight.
Following a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergencies committee, Boris Johnson his priority was to get UK nationals and Afghans who had worked with them out of the country "as fast as we can".
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