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Sir Philip Barton enjoys a £185,000-a-year taxpayer-funded pay packet - yet stayed on holiday for 11 days while Kabul fell.
The Foreign Office's top mandarin, who will enjoy a gold-plated pension, today admitted there are 'lessons to be learned' from the Afghanistan debacle.
He enjoyed a holiday abroad in August and left deputies to deal with the biggest foreign policy crisis since Suez in 1956.
Sir Philip, 58, who took on the role as Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs in September 2020, is in line for a £1.7million pension pot.
The British diplomat, born on August 18, 1963, studied economics and politics at Warwick University before receiving his masters in economics at the London School of Economics.
Sir Philip Barton (pictured), who will enjoy a gold-plated pension, today admitted there are 'lessons to be learned' from the Afghanistan debacle
The married father-of-two got his first job in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1986, when he was stationed in Caracas, New Delhi, and went on to be showered with awards: including the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours list; and Companion of the
