New ministerial transparency figures released overnight show that Ed Miliband and his ministers have racked up a whopping £98,297 on flights in Labour’s first nine months in office. From July 2024 to March 2025, DESNZ ministers clocked 18 return trips to India, China, Germany, Poland, Brazil, the USA, Austria, France, Norway, Azerbaijan, and Denmark. Courtesy of the taxpayer…
Guido crunched the numbers: 155,900 km flown – enough to circle the globe four times. The carbon footprint from these climate crusaders totals 51.19 tonnes of CO₂. Eco-friendly Zoom meeting, anyone?
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”