Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has defended his handling of the Afghanistan crisis, saying that a now controversial phone call to his Afghan counterpart had been prevented by the “rapidly deteriorating situation.” Raab has come under pressure from the Labour party after it emerged that he was on holiday in Crete before and during the fall of Kabul. Specifically, he has been criticised for delegating out a phone call requested urgently by the Afghan foreign minister to discuss rescuing translators. The Foreign Office said that Raab was able to handle priority issues from his vacation. Initially, the Foreign Office said that the foreign secretary had other calls which were higher in priority, so it was delegated to other staff. The Foreign Office now says that the call was never made. Until now, Raab had remained silent on the issue, other than to respond with a “no” to the question of whether he would …