Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is under growing pressure over his failure to phone his Afghan counterpart to seek help for locally-hired UK staff, as Taliban fighters surrounded the country's capital, Kabul. It has now emerged that the call was never made - with the Foreign Office saying "it was not possible to arrange" before the Afghan government collapsed. Opposition parties are calling for Mr Raab's resignation after it was reported that the task was passed on to junior minister Lord Goldsmith because the foreign secretary was said to be unavailable while on holiday in Crete last week. Mr Raab insisted on Thursday he was not going to quit.
It's been reported that Foreign Office officials advised Mr Raab that he should make the call to his Afghan counterpart seeking his help to rescue interpreters who had worked with the UK military. The Afghans refused to arrange a call with Lord Goldsmith - pushing it back to the next day.
While cabinet colleagues have defended Mr Raab, there are some backbench Conservative MPs who are unhappy with his handling of the crisis. Labour has set out 18 urgent questions it wants the foreign secretary to answer about his trip and his response to the Taliban takeover.
Separately, the Times has reported that the top civil servants at the Foreign Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence are all on holiday - but a government spokesman insisted Whitehall is "working intensively" on Afghanistan.

A report put together for the United Nations has warned the Taliban are going door-to-door seeking out Afghans who worked for Nato or the previous government. According to the Norwegian group that compiled the document, there is a blacklist of individuals who the Taliban will arrest and interrogate unless they give themselves up. Anyone on the list is in severe danger, the report says, as it warns of mass executions. The report comes as human rights group Amnesty International said Taliban militants "massacred" and tortured several members of the Hazara ethnic minority in July.
Meanwhile, Nato says it has evacuated 18,000 people from Kabul airport in the last five days and the military alliance has promised to double that effort over the weekend.
Elsewhere, it has emerged that a young footballer fell to his death after trying to stow away on a US military plane leaving Kabul airport. Zaki Anwari, 19, had played for Afghanistan's national youth team.
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The escalating row over why Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab delegated a call about rescuing Afghan interpreters to a junior colleague leads several papers. The Daily Mail says Mr Raab's job is "hanging by a thread" after it emerged the call was never made. The Guardian says the foreign secretary "in effect disappeared" for a week during the fall of Afghanistan. The Daily Telegraph reports that US President Joe Biden has hit back at criticism from British MPs about his decision to withdraw troops, saying Nato allies "had a choice" to remain. Elsewhere, the Daily Star and Daily Mirror both feature pictures of Scotland and Manchester United legend Denis Law, who announced on Thursday that he has dementia. Get more on what's making Friday's papers in our full review.

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