There are “clearly” lessons to be learned from the UK’s evacuation of British and Afghan civilians from Kabul, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Wednesday. It comes after a whistleblower said the part of the operation that was overseen by the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) was poorly equipped and badly coordinated, the prioritisation process was “arbitrary and dysfunctional,” and the FCDO’s Crisis Response structure was inadequate compared to the task. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee questioned three FCDO senior officials on Tuesday over the allegations during an oral evidence session, which committee chair Tom Tugendhat said “points to a lack of leadership, urgency, and adequate resourcing” in the FCDO. One of the officials, FCDO Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Philip Barton, was also grilled for taking a holiday on Aug. 9, when then-Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was also on holiday, and not returning to London until Aug. 25. Raab has also been heavily criticised for failing to return immediately …