The foreign secretary’s evasions are typical of a government that cannot take responsibility for its actions.

The elusive and crooked and cunning way in which he answers, so to speak, a simple and direct question, clearly shows that this is a person who does not have the minimum integrity, honesty and self-respect to be employed even just as a guard at the entrance to a supermarket.

This is the person Britain needs to hide in shame and not put in its front window.

This is a man that Britain should send to Afghanistan with a backpack and allow him to return only after the last of the British citizens - and the Afghans who helped them - have landed on British soil.

It is the person who should set an example of personal responsibility, and pay out of pocket all the money he has received from the public to compensate the victims of his omissions.