Ministers face a repeat of the Windrush scandal if non-UK nationals are left stranded abroad, Labour have warned. Charter flights have returned 19,000 stranded British nationals home since the coronavirus outbreak, Foreign Office Minister Nigel Adams confirmed.
The Foreign Office had already confirmed some 1.3 million Brits had travelled back to the UK on commercial flights since the Wuhan outbreak.
And today Mr Adams confirmed a further 93 charter flights, arranged through a £75 million partnership with airlines, had brought people back from countries which have closed commercial routes.
But Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy said she was "seriously concerned" that the Government still lacks full figures for how many people are still