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🗣️"Hindsight is an extraordinary thing," says General Sir Nick Carter.

There was a "delicate" judgement to be made around when to start the UK's evacuation efforts, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme

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🔴There are questions for Dominic Raab over the handling of the evacuation, the foreign affairs select committee chairman Tom Tugendhat has said.

"We'll certainly be looking backwards, as well as forwards"

Follow the latest #Afghanistan updates here ⬇️

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"I backed Biden. He has been a terrible disappointment"

🎧Author and commentator Lionel Shriver joins @Telegraph's own @StevenEdginton in this week’s Off Script podcast

@StevenEdginton 🔴NEW: UK's final evacuation flights to leave Kabul today, says head of Army

Follow the latest #Afghanistan updates on our liveblog here ⬇️

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📷Pictured: British troops back at Brize Norton after disembarking a Royal Airforce Voyager aircraft.

Follow the latest #Afghanistan updates here ⬇️

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✍️"While the debate in the West has been one of dismay and disbelief, there has been a more upbeat and lively discussion in Moscow and Beijing," writes @FraserNelson

🔎Read the full comment piece here ⬇️

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🚨BREAKING: 'Time to close this phase' of Kabul evacuation, says British ambassador to Afghanistan

Follow the latest #Afghanistan updates on our liveblog here ⬇️

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🔴The final UK #evacuation flight purely for Afghan nationals has left #Kabul.

Any more flights that depart from Kabul before Western withdrawal will now carry British diplomatic and military personnel

Read more ⬇️

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🔴NEW: Former British soldier who helped to evacuate dozens now stranded in Kabul

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🔴NEW: A shopkeeper from north London was blown up as his wife looked on while trying to gain entry to Kabul airport.

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🚨Joe Biden has said another terror attack on Kabul airport "highly likely in the next 24-36 hours".

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🗣️"It is just not sensible to rule this option out now, when it might make the difference between keeping venues open or not"

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