Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, slammed the government's reaction to events unfolding in Afghanistan, saying the prime minister's response 'to the Taliban arriving at the gates of Kabul was to go on holiday', and that the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, could not 'coordinate international response from the beach'. 
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