The first of three planned government charter flights to rescue British citizens from the Middle East failed to take off last night. No incoming films about this daring escape then…
The flight had been scheduled to leave Muscat in Oman at 11 p.m. local time. Passengers have reported that check-in took four hours thanks to a technical fault and by the time everyone got to the plane the pilot was no longer able to take off: “No consular staff were present airside. They just left us.” They’ve rescheduled the departure for later today – in the meantime passengers were sent home…
Starmer used the announcement of the flight as a moral stick with which to beat Badenoch at PMQs for daring to criticise his approach to the Iran operation. Something about piss-ups and breweries comes to mind…
Minister Alex Norris blamed “operational reasons” on Sky News just now for the failure. BA flights have begun to take Brits back to the UK. Need something done? Trust the private sector…
You’d think Starmer of all people would be able to get a flight off the ground…
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”