Ed Miliband has over the course of a year emitted more carbon dioxide from flights than an average Brit does in 35 years. Hot air merchant…
According to Environmental Information Regulations set out in 2004 ministerial plane travel needs to have its carbon footprint tracked by civil servants. Miliband’s total tab is a whopper…
Guido’s FoI Unit has uncovered that over 15 trips from August 2024 to June 2025 – including domestic flights – Miliband emitted 31.03 tonnes CO2 equivalent. 49,952 miles covered…
Miliband’s most gaseous single trip was in March from London Heathrow to Doha to Beijing Daxing: 7,079 miles and 6.53 tonnes CO₂e. Considering 2024’s total UK international aviation emissions were around 36 million tonnes, produced by roughly 40 million passengers, that works out to about 0.9 tonnes CO₂ per UK resident per year for flights. Multiply that by 34.5 and you get Miliband’s figure so far…
Read the full list, gathered by DESNZ officials, below:
17 Aug 2024: London Heathrow → Lisbon → Belém → Lisbon → London Heathrow – 10,237 mi – 6,464.39 t CO₂e
28 Sep 2024: New York JFK → London Heathrow – 3,453 mi – 1,903.40 t CO₂e
16 Oct 2024: London Gatwick → Aberdeen – 399 mi – 0.103 t CO₂e
23 Oct 2024: London Heathrow → Washington Dulles → London Heathrow – 7,344 mi – 4,048.24 t CO₂e
13 Nov 2024: Baku → Doha → London Heathrow – 4,302 mi – 3,967.03 t CO₂e
17 Nov 2024: London Gatwick → Baku – 2,472 mi – 0.470 t CO₂e
24 Nov 2024: Baku → London Gatwick – 2,472 mi – 1,362.64 t CO₂e
9 Feb 2025: London Heathrow → Delhi → London Heathrow – 8,338 mi – 6,181.18 t CO₂e
15 Mar 2025: London Heathrow → Doha → Beijing Daxing – 7,079 mi – 6,527.80 t CO₂e
24 Mar 2025: London City → Berlin Brandenburg – 537 mi – 0.0996 t CO₂e
25 Mar 2025: Berlin Brandenburg → London Heathrow – 595 mi – 0.0704 t CO₂e
6 May 2025: London Heathrow → Oslo – 724 mi – 0.122 t CO₂e
7 May 2025: Oslo → London Heathrow – 724 mi – 0.127 t CO₂e
12 Jun 2025: London Heathrow → Aberdeen – 399 mi – 0.060 t CO₂e
12 Jun 2025: Aberdeen → London Heathrow – 399 mi – 0.051 t CO₂e
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.”