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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nina Lloyd

Ministers ‘exploring every single option but no Sudan evacuation plan yet’

AP

The Government is “exploring every single option” but has no current plan to evacuate British citizens from Sudan, a minister who attended Rishi Sunak’s emergency Cobra meeting has said.

RFA Cardigan Bay and HMS Lancaster were being lined up as options to help people out of the war-torn country, where at least 2,000 UK citizens remain after UK diplomats were removed.

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