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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Jones Forsyth.

So today the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was in front of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee answering questions about his handling of the Afghanistan situation.

Here's what he had to say.

We wanted to get some of those embassy guards through, but the buses arranged to collect them, to take them to the airport, weren't given permission to enter.

And that is, I'm afraid, reflection of the conditions on the ground.

We will, of course, which comes back to the third country, arrangements.

They were held up due to paperwork.

So let's stick with some of this.

Because the defence secretary, let's stick with the same issue.

Because you can't say whether they're here or not, it sounds like.

So you're not answering the question, so allow me to move on.

The defence secretary, who I think is credited by most, as having worked his socks off.

You can frown.

You can frown.

You're not answering the question, Franciscite, so let's move on. Katie, how did you think that Dominic Robb did?

Because he does seem a little bit irritated at times at being asked so many hard questions,

and it did run on for quite a long time.

I think ahead of his appearance, it was dubbed almost by some as a make-or-break appearance.

I was always a bit skeptical of just in the sense that we know that Boris Johnson doesn't really

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