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Government announces new £75m plan to fly home tens of thousands of stranded Brits abroad

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New £75m plans to fly home stranded Britons abroad have been revealed in today's daily press briefing on coronavirus. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government has formed an arrangement with commercial airlines to rescue the tens of thousands of UK nationals.

Partner airlines will include British Airways, Virgin, easyJet, Jet2, and Titan, but Mr Raab advised this list could be expanded.

Speaking from Downing Street, he said: “I can today announce a new arrangement between the Government and airlines to fly home tens of thousands of stranded British travellers, where commercial flights are no longer possible. “Under the arrangements that we are putting in place we will target flights from a range of priority countries, starting

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