Home Secretary quizzed on apparent gaffe after campaign advert is mocked on social media
The Union Jack was flown upside down in the Conservative Party’s first general election campaign ad The Home Secretary has denied claims that a Tory election broadcast carried a hidden “distress signal” after it featured a Union Flag being flown upside down.The three-minute video showed a brief clip of the flag being flown upside down, which in military terms is often interpreted as a coded distress signal.
When asked by the presenter to confirm what “a flag flying upside down means” and if it acts as a distress signal, he said: “No it doesn’t, this is complete nonsense… it really doesn’t”.Is an upside down Union Jack a distress signal? Look at the side of the flag nearest to the pole: it should display the wider white diagonal stripe above the red diagonal stripe. This is the correct way up. But this is not the case in the Conservative campaign video.
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