Second airbase in Britain reportedly saw aircraft evacuation: Grierson and Sabbagh say
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The US military reportedly evacuated aircraft from a second airbase in Britain after a threat from Iran, Jamie Grierson and Dan Sabbagh reported. Sky News asked Lucy Powell about the RAF Mildenhall story while the deputy Labour leader and education secretary was giving interviews on behalf of the government that morning.
Powell told Sky News: “I can’t comment on those sort of live operations, as you know. But we’re constantly keeping the security of our bases under review and, as we’ve seen with other cases recently, we take firm and quick action where we need to.”
Her first sentence limited her answer to live operations. The rest described the government’s continual review of base security and its practice of taking firm and quick action when needed.
Powell referred to other recent cases but did not identify them or explain the RAF Mildenhall story. She also did not describe the nature of the Iran threat, the type of aircraft or the scale of the evacuation. Her response supplied the government’s general security approach without explaining the reported operation.