EXC: Speaking to MPs earlier on a private call, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab gave many more details of the UK plan for post than emerged in public. Here's what he told them:
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Key points:
* Raab said "we really could do with is the Taliban being able to run a functional airport in Kabul"
* Raab warns West could block "access to the international finance system", reduce aid and impose sanctions if they don't get what they want
* Raab said "we really could do with is the Taliban being able to run a functional airport in Kabul"
* Raab warns West could block "access to the international finance system", reduce aid and impose sanctions if they don't get what they want
* Mr Raab said the ideal way of dealing with a Taliban gvt in future would mirror that used in the Balkans. He said he wanted an "international contact group" which the Western powers could use to liaise with the new Taliban gvt based on the model from the former Yugoslavia
* Mr Raab told MPs that almost all "mono national Britons (Britons without dual nationality)" have been evacuated, but he refused to be drawn on the numbers who would be left behind. He stressed that the last few days would make "all the difference"
* Mr Raab said the next priorities for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) would be female human rights activists, female judges, members of the LBGT+ community and the children of British passport holders
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