Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK departure from Afghanistan was "the culmination of a mission unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes".
In a video clip uploaded to Twitter on Sunday morning, Mr Johnson said: "UK troops and officials have worked around the clock to a remorseless deadline in harrowing conditions.
"They have expended all the patience and care and thought they possess to help people in fear for their lives.
"They've seen at first-hand barbaric terrorist attacks on the queues of people they were trying to comfort, as well as on our American friends.
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