Welcome aboard Not-Priti Airways Flight KQ100, the long-haul service to the back benches. Please make sure your tray tables and prime minister are in the uptight position. The almost-former international development secretary’s plane took off from Nairobi just after 6.30am GMT. At one point 22,000 people were online tracking its progress, slicing through the African sky at 500 knots, which is almost as many as Ms Patel has tied herself in this week. By 10.30am she was over Egypt, but unable to catch a glimpse of her beloved Israel to the east, or…

Source: The Times November 09, 2017 00:02 UTC