Lammy is making the most of his gig as Foreign Secretary – especially when it comes to racking up air miles at the taxpayer’s expense. Since taking office he’s already burned through an eye-watering £916,177 on flights. His priciest single trip was jaunt to New Delhi, India, and Vientiane, Laos, which totalled £266,456…
In his first three months alone, Lammy splashed out £891,719 on private air travel – nearly half of what Liz Truss spent during her entire tenure as Foreign Secretary in 2021-2022. That’s £297,239 per month on flying, exactly 77.84% more than Truss spent. Meanwhile Lammy claims climate change is “one of the biggest dangers facing the world”…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”