Dominic Raab came under fire on Good Morning Britain after his response regarding the Afghanistan crisis.
Susanna Reid didn't hold back and slammed the Foreign Secretary for his missing calls about the events unfolding in the Middle East while he was on holiday.
Susanna was joined by Richard Bacon on ITV and were discussing the latest headlines before moving on to grill Dominic Raab's decision to pass the phone call about evacuating interpreters from Afghanistan to another minister as he was too busy to take it, The Mirror reports.
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The Foreign Secretary was reportedly on holiday in Crete while the city of Kabul fell to the Taliban, marking full control of the country.
A government spokesperson said it "was not possible to arrange a call" for Mr Raab on Sunday.
This morning (Friday August 20), 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."
She suggested it wasn't a "party political matter" and would be a potential "dereliction of duty".
Susanna followed from that and added: "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 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.
The Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid, 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.
Sky News grilled the Foreign Secretary on his holiday and action
He said: "Everyone was caught off-guard by the pace, scale of the Taliban takeover."
Raab added: "When [foreign secretaries] are abroad, whether it’s travel for work or for holiday, we are there able to respond to events. So I was engaged in Cobra, talking to foreign counterparts, directly speaking to the head of our team here in London, I was doing that on an hour-by-hour basis and, of course, I left as soon as the situation deteriorated and demanded it."
He add: "From my point of view, at any point in time, I will have eight to 10 simmering issues that can bubble up,” adding that people in positions of power deserved a break after “two years of a very gruelling, demanding schedule.
"We didn’t predict that we would be doing this on this scale because of the Taliban takeover.
"But look, in retrospect of course I wouldn’t have gone on holiday if I had known that would be the case."
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