Daily Mail

The Daily Mail reports that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was “too busy” to make the phone call required to get urgent help airlifting vulnerable translators out of Afghanistan.

Terrified Afghan interpreters have been in hiding near Kabul airport – as dozens of others were airlifted to Britain, claims the Daily Mail. It reports the trapped translators said militant gunmen wanted to kill them before they could board RAF mercy flights.

The families of more than 457 British heroes who sacrificed their lives are asking what they died for after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the Daily Mail reports.

Plymouth gunman Jake Davison had been “stripped of his shotgun licence before police handed it back last month”, the Daily Mail reports.

The Daily Mail says a number of people have been left needing treatment after the Plymouth shooting.

Similarly to the Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail reports on the British embassy official accused of passing classified terrorism documents to a Russian spy.

COVID travel tests can cost more than five times the price of a return flight to Europe, according to the Daily Mail, which says ministers are facing increasing pressure to cap how much travellers pay for PCR tests. 

A cabinet minister has suggested civil servants who refuse to return to the office should be paid less than those who do choose to go back, writes the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail says MP Alok Sharma, who is president of COP26, should be forced to hotel quarantine after his trips to ‘red list’ countries.