A very welcome change in policy this morning!
Indeed. Long may it continue.
What helped was that there were a lot less of our own a/c cluttering up the west apron than there were a couple of weeks ago. With the onset of part of the summer schedules, and perhaps some extra flights over Easter, quite a few FR/EZY and Jet2 flights had departed by 07.00. Whether some of them had been parked remote I'm not sure but there were certainly more stands available which allowed the diversions to be accepted.