Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has told MPs how he resorted to texting a foreign counterpart in a bid to secure urgent military helicopters which were needed to ferry thousands of trapped Britons out of war-torn Sudan.
Speaking in front of the Parliamentary Defence Sub-Committee on Tuesday, the Defence Secretary revealed that he was able to bypass formal channels and use his ministerial connections to secure Chinooks for the evacuations in Sudan.
Mr Wallace told MPs: “I have been able to do stuff on Sudan through ministerial connections quicker than practically the formal system.
“I needed to forward base some Chinooks. I texted a counterpart in another country, bang, got it in 24 hours, just because sometimes in some of those countries it is run by one person and you have to just do that.”
Pressed on how efforts to rescue thousands of British nations stranded in Sudan, Mr Wallace insisted that he was pleased with the progress so far.
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