Labour have been in office less than a week, and already they’ve broken one of their promises. Last year, Rachel Reeves promised to enforce ministerial rules on the use of private aircraft for official trips to “save millions of pounds for taxpayers”. At the time it was revealed how often Sunak had used RAF jets, which lead Labour to promise to kick this “private jet habit”. That hasn’t lasted long…

David Lammy flew to Stockholm via an Airbus A321 three days ago. Starmer took a private RAF flight around the home nations on Friday, while Healey jetted off in a separate RAF plane to Ukraine. Yesterday, the two took separate RAF jets to fly to Washington DC. According to publicly available operational cost data, Healey’s flight on the swanky Dassault Falcon 900LX alone cost around £60,000. Starmer’s first class trip on the same plane Lammy used cost roughly £90,000. A glimpse of future broken promises and splashing taxpayers’ cash to come…