DESNZ civil servants have spent an eye-watering £88,947 on gift vouchers since January this year to June. No need to tighten the purse strings when it’s other people’s money…
Government figures reveal that in the first six months of this year, pen-pushers splashed thousands using their taxpayer-funded credit cards (GPCs) on gift voucher company “Appreciate Group plc”. The firm offers “Love2shop Gift Card, a pre-paid gift card; Love2shop Gift Voucher, a multi-retailer voucher; Love2shop Holidays.” Retail therapy after being dragged to the office three days a week…
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£64,485 of this was spent after Labour’s so-called “immediate freeze” on GPCs. The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…
Local government minister Alison McGovern told LBC that the BBC should apologise to Trump:
“If they’ve made an editorial mistake, then they should apologise. And, more broadly, I think if they’ve made errors, I think the answer to that is better quality journalism, and to invest in that journalism so that we can have the standard of programmes we all want from the BBC.”