Boris Johnson defended the government's decision to invite Donald Trump to the UK

Boris Johnson was ridiculed in the Commons after missing a key vote on Heathrow expansion by arranging a whistle-stop trip to Afghanistan.

Answering questions from MPs, the foreign secretary was mocked for his flying visit to Kabul and forced to defend the government's decision to invite Donald Trump to the UK.

Mr Johnson, whose Uxbridge constituency is under the Heathrow flight path, had previously vowed to "lie down in front of the bulldozers" to prevent expansion at the airport. He was widely criticised, including by a number of Tory MPs, for skipping the vote rather than resigning in order to vote against a third runway.

Elsewhere, Sadiq Khan gave evidence to a Commons committee about the need for more devolution London, while Theresa May delivered a speech on the UK economy after Brexit.

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