LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Britain has managed to remove around 1,000 people a day from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country, interior minister Priti Patel said on Wednesday. "We have been getting out approximately 1,000 people, so far, a day," she told BBC TV. "We"re still bringing out British nationals... and those Afghan nationals who are part of our locally employed scheme." Reporting by James Davey; writing by Kate Holton Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.