GMB's Susanna Reid blasts Dominic Raab for photoshoot amid Afghanistan crisis

Susanna Reid has blasted Dominic Raab for his missing calls about the Afghanistan crisis while he was on holiday.

The Good Morning Britain presenter returned from her summer holiday to cover for colleague Kate Garraway as she went on a trip with her children without her husband Derek Draper.

Up for discussion was how Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab delegated a call about evacuating interpreters from Afghanistan to another minister as he was too busy to take it.

A government spokesperson said it "was not possible to arrange a call" for Mr Raab on Sunday as he was on holiday in Greece as the city of Kabul fell to the Taliban.

Susanna Reid slammed Dominic Raab for his response to the Afghanistan crisis on Good Morning Britain (ITV)

Now on Friday, Susanna was discussing with the GMB panel the ongoing crisis and how Opposition parties were now calling for the Foreign Secretary to resign.

Susanna described it as another day of "enormous pressure" and agreed with former MP Lord Jeffrey Archer, asking Nadine Batchelor-Hunt that "if anything happens to those people that we might of protected, his position is untenable, isn't it?"

Nadine commented: "Just on a human level if I could have saved a life and I didn't because I didn't pick up the phone and it was my job to pick up the phone, I think I would just resign out of shame."

Dominic Raab poses for a photoshoot on the phone to G7 allies over the Afghanistan crisis (UK Government/Flickr)

She suggested it wasn't a "party political matter" and would be a potential "dereliction of duty".

Susanna said: "Quite apart from shame, as you say, just as a human instinct, you'd think 'We didn't do what we should have done, I fall on my sword'.

"But quite apart from that, he's done a photoshoot. He's done a photoshoot at his desk, and what's he doing on the photoshoot? He's making lots of calls."

Richard added: "Just in case we didn't know what a man taking calls looks like."

Susanna was back from her summer break alongside guest presenter Richard Bacon (ITV)

Susanna continued: "And of course, those aren't the calls he should have made when he was in Crete, lying on a sun lounger."

Richard described the "optics as terrible" and Lord Archer admitted that "timing was everything" despite liking Raab, but would not commit to saying Raab should resign.

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