Boris Johnson holidaying on a Caribbean Island as Britain faces an international crisis is inexcusable.
Mustique, where the PM has been enjoying a lavish private getaway, is difficult to get to from the UK.
You have to fly to it in a tiny propeller plane from a neighbouring island because the airfield is so small.
The aircraft can fly only during the day because the runway has no lights.
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So it’s perhaps understandable that the PM was unable to rush back to No10 after Donald Trump’s actions put the world at risk.
But there’s a reason Theresa May chose walking in the Welsh mountains and David Cameron took his holidays in Cornwall.
A Prime Minister is Prime Minister all the time, not just when the airport departures are convenient.
The 2015 Iran deal aimed to tame the Middle East state’s nuclear ambitions – and for a while it was working.
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But almost as soon as President Trump took office the deal was effectively torn up.
To his credit, Mr Johnson tried to bring the President back to the table at last year’s UN summit.
But he failed, leaving the region – as Jeremy Hunt says – playing an “incredibly dangerous game of chicken”.
The Middle East is complicated.
Five years ago the man targeted by Trump’s reckless drone strike was fighting on our side to drive Isis out of Iraq.
Yet the US say he was actively involved in plotting attacks against their allies.
If we are going to avoid another Gulf war – or worse – our leaders need to pay more attention.
