The weak Prime Minister

Katie59 suggested the diplomats would be involved with the evacuation.

The diplomats went home yesterday.

So they won't be organising the evacuation, will they?

There will be military attaches and others as well as local staff, this isn’t Afghanistan we’re not involved in the conflict it’s a safety evacuation.
There are many thousands of western civilians in Khartoum that will need evacuating that can’t be done until the fighting stops, at least for a while.

MaizieD

You need to read Ian Dunt's exhaustively researched book, Grantanow.

The whole lot is dysfunctional. The government (the Executive) are taking more and more powers to itself and sideling Parliament. (Something I have been banging on about from time to time in the past 7 years, so I'm glad to see that my fears have been justified). If people don't understand the implications of this then they need to go back the the English Civil war and learn what it was all about.

It isn't news that any UK government with an adequate majority in the Commons can do as it pleases as an Executive and through legislation. That is how our system has worked for centuries. It doesn't need a well-researched book to tell us that. Parliament has been sidelined since Cabinet government by majority Parties began. The alternative of an Executive hamstrung by a Congress controlled by the other main Party is an American problem we should perhaps not be too keen to emulate.