Plans are afoot for Theresa May to travel to Berlin in a reconditioned Lancaster bomber. The PM will hold direct talks with Angela Merkel, provided the doors don’t jam on the antique plane.

Strength

Off The Perch spoke to Letitia Febreze from the government’s Brexit department, DExEU:

Flying the flag

May won’t actually be flying the plane herself. Joystick duties will be handled by David ‘Dave’ Davis, who Off The Perch understands has spent the last two and a half years obtaining his private pilot’s licence.

Ken Chisel, from the Institute of Criticism, gave May’s latest transport choice short shrift:

This is clearly just an attempt to piggy-back off all the ludicrous ‘spirit of the blitz’ nonsense going round. If it’s not ERG types frothing about ‘Teutonic arrogance’, then it’s the BBC running pointless puff pieces on WW2 museums. I suspect some brainstorming meeting in a Whitehall bunker has seen a minister pull out a Dig For Victory poster or a Keep Calm And Carry On tea towel and say ‘This is how we’ll get the country onside’. It’s shameless really.

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