Co-conspirators may remember some of the things Labour figures have had to say about ministerial jet use in the not-so-distant past:
Reeves even made a big thing of pledging to crack down on ministers flying private. She might want to have a word with her Downing Street neighbour…
In his first three months in office Starmer took nine flights at a total duration of 62 hours and 32 minutes. He went on to take many more as co-conspirators will know…
The total cost of that travel as totted up by the Civil Service is a huge £697,198. That means that the UK taxpayer has forked out £186 for every minute that Starmer spent in the air from July to September. Per hour that’s £11,160. The PM is only beaten by his Foreign Secretary on private jet spending over that period. Labour will argue you have to fly if you’re in office – something they didn’t afford the Tories when they were in opposition…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”