Inside Politics: UK warns of ‘credible’ terrorist threat at Kabul airport

Britain is making one last push to get nearly 2,000 people out in what is expected to be the final day of the airlift operation, writes Adam Forrest

Desperate crowds outside Kabul airport on Wednesday (Reuters)

Historians have compared the chaos in Afghanistan with another evacuation after another humiliating defeat – Vietnam in 1975. At the moment, it doesn’t look like the West’s final hours in Kabul will be anything like as orderly as Saigon. The UK and US have warned of a “high threat” of a terrorist attack at the airport, as thousands try to scramble onto the final flights out of the city.

Inside the bubble

Political correspondent Ashley Cowburn on what to look out for today: