Dear Editor of "i", 11th April 2020
The “i” has been exceptionally generous in giving Dominic Raab the benefit of the doubt as to his fitness to be First Secretary of State at this trying time during Boris Johnson’s illness (“Johnson is released from intensive care but remains in hospital” “i” 10/04/2020).
Promoted largely because of his Brexit fundamentalism and betrayal of Theresa May while her Brexit negotiator, Mr Raab has misled the public over Mr Johnson’s apparent “hands on” control of Cabinet meetings while in hospital and shown himself singularly uninspiring in his major current task as Foreign Secretary, namely to repatriate UK citizens from abroad. The “i” reported in early April how he still had 50,000 UK citizens waiting to be brought back and he fumbled in his replies on the issue in the House of Commons.
Other countries have been far more effective in repatriating their citizens. Acting on behalf of the Polish government, for instance, LOT Airline was able to repatriate 54,000 Polish citizens from 71 airports around the world in 388 flights. From the UK alone 21,000 passengers were flown back to Poland and last Sunday LOT even carried two plane loads of UK residents waiting for 3 weeks to be brough back from Warsaw to London. I had expected a more effective response by our “acting Prime Minister” in Westminster.
Yours faithfully,
Wiktor Moszczynski
(unfortunately not published)
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