The latest plane carrying evacuees from Afghanistan to Britain has arrived in the country in the early hours of Thursday.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) says an RAF Voyager aircraft carrying around 250 people from Kabul landed at the Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire soon after midnight.

This includes embassy staff, British nationals, those eligible under the Afghan relocation and assistance policy (Arap) programme, as well as some evacuees from allied countries.

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British nationals and Afghan evacuees after disembarking at Brize Norton (Jacob King/PA)

The MoD said the UK has evacuated some 7,000 Afghan individuals and their families.

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The flight took to more than 11,500 the number of people airlifted to the UK from Kabul since August 13 (Jacob King/PA)

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said “every hour” will be used to help people flee and declined to rule out UK forces having to depart by the end of Friday.

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