Tory MPs were having a ball on a cricket jolly to Corfu while the Commons discussed evacuating Brits from civil war-ravaged Sudan.
They visited for a tournament to mark the 200th anniversary of the sport being introduced to Greece – where it was first played on the island of Corfu while it was under British rule.
Parliamentary registers show eight Conservative MPs and two Tory peers jetted out last month. At least four of the MPs were still abroad when Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell made a Commons statement on April 24 about Sudan after fighting broke out. Shadow Minister for Africa Lyn Brown told MPs: “The Government should be evacuating as many British nationals as possible, as quickly as possible.”
