<< A spokesman for the Transport and General Workers Union, said it was "extraordinary that the prime minister should not be flying in a British-built 'plane." >>
It would be even more extraordinary if he was.
Given that generations of Britain's mobbed-up bloody unions and their gangsters-as-politician Labour Party cohorts [And, beginning with the well-known habitual drunkard and Whittle jet engine "donating" Winston Churchill, plenty of "Conservatives," too] have work-ruled and regulated once great Britain's once truly great Aircraft [And every other!] Industry completely out of existence!
Or, as anyone who regularly deals with them can attest, is it any wonder so many of Boeing's, Pratt and Whitney's and GE's et al's very best designers and engineers have British accents?
I'll resist the urge to respond to your amazingly stupid slur on Sir Winston and merely metion that I believe that it was the post-war Atlee-let, Labor government that sent the engine to Comrade Stalin.