Co-conspirators may remember foreign secretary David Lammy’s lavish private jet habit racking up a bill of £916,177 on flights in the first three months after the election. Learjet Lammy has only become more travel-hungry since then…
Newly released official figures show that in the three months from October to December Lammy has racked up a whopping £1,230,611.39 bill for flights, the majority of which is made up of costs from his jaunts on the largest jet in the ministerial fleet, an Airbus A321-251NX(LR). Private flights accounted for £1,088,549.06 of the total bill. Will anyone think of the environment?
That’s a substantial increase of 34.3% on the three months prior. For every day that went by David Lammy spent £14,650 on air travel…
FCDO ministers in that period spent a total of £1,368,679.56 on overseas travel. They managed to visit in that time the USA, Malawi, Zambia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Germany, France, China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, Barbados, Guyana, Bahrain, Jordan, Italy, Moldova, Belgium, Malta, Luxembourg, Samoa, Ireland, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Grenada, Colombia, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Fiji, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Turkey, Iceland, Norway. Is Starmer soon to tell David that “the view on the ground is very different to that from his private jet”…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”