1. UK government ministers and top brass have done some really essential international travel this month. Let's see where we've paid for them to visit, while we've been in lockdown:
2. Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab absolutely had to visit Sudan - where he elbow bumped a military leader accused of killing protesters
3. Raab also visited a school in Ethiopia
4. Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP definitely had to visit Kenya to open a military base. Essential travel!
5. Foreign Minister @JamesDuddridge also 100% had to visit Kenya
6. And General Lorimer really really had to visit the United Arab Emirates to meet its dictator
7. Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP also visited Somalia this week - another example of absolutely essential international travel, while his cabinet colleagues criticise the public for going abroad
8. After a stopover at Sandhurst in England, General Lorimer appears to have travelled to Egypt to admire the Pyramids
9. And now General Lorimer is in Bahrain for his third essential international trip during UK lockdown
10. Trade Secretary Liz Truss has gone to India during lockdown
11. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab went to Cyprus last week during lockdown
12. Alok Sharma MP is in Egypt today
13. Earlier in lockdown, Alok Sharma went to Ethiopia and Gabon
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