Reported claimRated False: This meeting did not happen as depicted in the image. The then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was stood between Mr Hart and Mr Shapps, as shown in this image on the official Number 10 Flickr account which was taken on June 9, 2021. · PA Media
Claimed: “Grant Shapps was the only politician with Virgin Orbit chief executive Dan Hart and a colleague while standing in front of the LauncherOne vehicle at the spaceport at Newquay Airport in Cornwall.” — rated False: This meeting did not happen as depicted in the image. The then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was stood between Mr Hart and Mr Shapps, as shown in this image on the official Number 10 Flickr account which was taken on June 9, 2021. by PA Media.
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