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UK flies home 1,000 Britons but leaves 65,000 in limbo during pandemic

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UK flies home 1,000 Britons but leaves 65,000 in limbo during pandemic

UK has chartered just six flights via an EU scheme compared with 101 fights bringing home German nationals

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Four in 10 of the 165,000 Europeans stranded around the world amid the pandemic are UK nationals but the British government has organised fewer EU-funded emergency flights than any other major country, the Guardian can reveal.

The UK has chartered just six flights via the EU crisis scheme, bringing 1,000 Britons home. Germany, in comparison, has organised 101 such flights through the programme, repatriating a total of 21,815 of its citizens with EU cash.

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