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Diary

Penny Mordaunt: I’m fired. Job done

3 August 2019

9:00 AM

3 August 2019

9:00 AM

I begin the week in Bamako, Mali, with a crackly telephone call to Commodore Dean Bassett, UK Maritime Component Commander in the Gulf. He informs me that HMS Montrose and the Maritime Trade Operation has seen 30 ships safely through the Strait of Hormuz. These ships had been given 24 hours’ notice for their transit.

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