PARLIAMENT should be recalled again for a special Saturday sitting to assess the final days of the Afghanistan evacuation effort, a Tory peer said yesterday.

Lord Naseby told ministers to “face reality” as he suggested that the Taliban would not be willing to move the current evacuation deadline of August 31.

Afghanistan’s new rulers have warned that any attempt to continue evacuations into next month would “provoke a reaction,” in a statement the former Commons deputy speaker branded a “wake-up call.”

Lord Naseby said that MPs and peers must therefore be given the chance to raise issues again, after a special one-day sitting last week, and hear how the final days of the evacuation will pan out.

“It’s behove of any government in a situation as dire as this is to recall Parliament for a second time so we can have a complete update,” he said.

“Zoom is all very well, but we have a responsibility to allow Parliament to have its voice.”

Only the government has the power to ask Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to recall members before Parliament returns on September 6.