{"id":462293,"date":"2026-03-07T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462293\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:16:07","slug":"swinney-would-consider-banning-us-military-planes-from-prestwick-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462293\/","title":{"rendered":"Swinney would &#8216;consider&#8217; banning US military planes from Prestwick Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinney was pressed on the issue by the BBC&#8217;s Laura Kuenssberg in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He replied: &#8220;We&#8217;re seeking clarity from the United Kingdom government about the purpose of American flights that are coming in and out of Prestwick, but we don&#8217;t have the ability to scrutinise those flights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first minister said there were American aircraft going through Prestwick to the Middle East but he could make no judgement until he had clarity from the UK government about their purpose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if he would ban them if it was confirmed they were involved with the Middle East operation, Swinney said:&#8221; I will consider that based on the evidence that&#8217;s provided to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has contacted the Ministry of Defence to ask whether it could provide such clarity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swinney was pressed on the issue by the BBC&#8217;s Laura Kuenssberg in an interview to be broadcast on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}