Downing Street says Starmer’s latest trip to Norway and Tallinn will be his last this year. Starmer will spend a rare two weeks on UK soil over Christmas. A tough gig…
Guido has therefore updated his longstanding Starmer flight tracker with 2024’s totals. Since he was elected Starmer will have spent 173 hours and 31 minutes in the air. That doesn’t include the time he actually spent on foreign soil…
173 hours and 31 minutes is equivalent to 7 days and 5 hours – more than a week spent continuously in the air. It’s also 4.3 full work weeks. If you were on a nonstop flight for that amount of time, you could fly around the world more than four times over. Will Starmer make his New Year’s resolution to be less afraid of British soil?
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”