The first of six Royal Navy ships is positioned off Lebanon to begin a potential mass evacuation of Britons from the “appalling” situation there, Tony Blair has said. “We are doing absolutely everything we can to make sure the evacuation happens as swiftly and as properly as possible,” Blair said in London as the warships prepared to whisk away those among the 12,000 British nationals and 10,000 dual nationals in Lebanon who wanted to escape. Full Story