British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended his response to the fall of Afghanistan on Friday, saying reporting around his actions had been inaccurate and the government had worked tirelessly to get people out.
Raab was on holiday when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and media reports have said he failed to make a call to his Afghan counterpart about evacuating local translators.
"The whole of government has been working tirelessly over the last week to help as many people evacuate from Afghanistan as possible," he said, adding that he had been focused on events at the airport. He added on Twitter that his statement was in response to "inaccurate media reporting over recent days".
(Reporting by William James, writing by Costas Pitas)
