Keir Starmer announced the departure of the first UK charter flight from the Middle East.

The flight took off from Oman at 16:00 local time (14:00 UK time). It had originally been scheduled to depart last night, but this did not happen due to “operational issues.”

The United Kingdom is also deploying **four Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to Qatar and helicopters to Cyprus as part of security and evacuation measures.