Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has for the first time addressed questions about his being on holiday in Crete as the Taliban advanced through Afghanistan and took Kabul. “With the benefit of hindsight I would have been back earlier, but we were all surprised by the scale and the pace of the collapse of the situation,” Raab told Sky News, denying reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had ordered him home two days before he arrived back. He said claims that he was paddle-boarding as Kabul fell were “nonsense,” and that the sea was closed that day. He told the BBC, “I based my family on the beach … precisely so I could get back to the apartment, engage in the [emergency] Cobra meetings, engage with my emergency response team at the Foreign Office, engage in the international engagement I needed to.” Some opposition MPs had called for Raab’s resignation after …