The Foreign Office launches the biggest repatriation of Brits in peacetime.

3/4s of a million stranded and told to get home.

What’s it like trying to coordinate an effort like that inside Govenrment and is the foreign office, the longest arm of the British state, up to the job?

Joining Tom this week is Alistair Burt, former foreign office minister responsible for the Middle East when the Arab spring broke out.

Rule Britannia discovers Britains place in a fast changing world.

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