The UK government has demonstrated its "support" for its own national airline industry by pitching up in Tokyo to meet the Japanese head of state in a Boeing 747 belonging to Angolan Airline SonAir. As expressions of contempt, one couldn't be much clearer. With support like that....
This sounds like a Daily Mail wind-up. It sends a far more important message to Britain's potential business partners abroad that the government here is cost-conscious, internationally-focussed and supportive of business.
Most foreign press coverage will focus on the fact that he pitched up with a plane-load of British business leaders, keen to do business and trade with the countries being visited. Only the moaning minnies of the British so-called newspapers will focus on such irrelevant minutiae as this.