Rishi Sunak says he hasn’t got time to fly to Australia to watch the Lionesses take on Spain tomorrow. The Prince of Wales, who is also the president of the (English) Football Association, says he’s not going to – for reasons on which he has not expanded.
Branson has been boasting for a while that in a few years’ time, you’ll be able to fly on his rocket ship from London to Australia in two hours. So, put your money where your mouth is, Dicky, and get Wills and Rishi out there. The PR potential for all concerned seems almost unimaginable. Just the thought of the pictures... the prime minister and the future king, striding out to the spacecraft, not to go where no man has gone before, but to go precisely where England’s brave women have gone already – to Australia, and on, perchance, to glory.
All right, so there are some logistical problems to consider, namely that said spacecraft currently takes off from New Mexico, by which point the prime minister and His Royal Highness would already be halfway there. Nor is there, as far as I’m aware, any viable way of landing the thing in Australia, but they do have a lot of desert to aim for.
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