VC 10 and Tony Blair
Everyone loved the VC 10 except, it seems, Tony Blair. A published account of his second term reveals that the 'elderly' VC 10 was despised by Blair for the antiquity of its comms fit and its embarrassingly old vintage compared with aircraft used by other world leaders. There was talk of acquiring for him his very own 'Air Force One'. It must be remembered that, at the time, Blair was in thrall to George Bush and was at the height of his messianic phase.
I guess he ignored the fact it outperformed most of the other world leaders aircraft despite it's vintage. Can't see airforce one operating out of the same places the VC-10 could either. Mind you he also killed concorde, Maggie would probably have had one handed to the RAF and used it every trip to europe she could if the fronceh tried that on in her day!