@markhburton It might be based in the UK but it didn't fly out of the UK at the start of that sortie. The plane just isn't used that way. It will have launched from a neighbouring country.

It's the movements of long range bombers and other large planes we need to keep an eye on. They are taking off from here flying over the region and coming back and that's something Starmer originally said would not be happening yet clearly has happened.