you will be familiar with. that didn't mean that we didn't do contingency planning or game out or test the other propositions. and, just to be clear, that's something that was widely shared, that view, amongst nato allies. dominic raab. 0ur political correspondent ione wells is at westminster hi, my team. i think one of the key learnings that we got from mr rab there was what we have just learned today. essentially the central intelligence was operating on the central assessment that they were following that when us troops withdrew we would see a steady deterioration of the situation in afghanistan but that kabul was unlikely to fall this year. in other words, the intelligence they were following was not correct and that is a pretty strong can make admission we have heard there from the foreign secretary in a sponsor terms as we have had for some time. quite frosty the chair when tom tugendhat specifically press the pm on a key risk report from july that