Labour’s ‘trade envoy’ programme for MPs has racked up a record annual bill of £224,331 in travel costs. Hop on the jolly express…
Costs for 2022-23 and 2023-24 were £202,000 and £219,000 respectively. With a month still to account for Labour’s envoys have far exceeded that over a total of 52 trips…
Starmer’s government has handed out trade envoy positions as a reward for loyalty. You can see why…
Matt Western (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) tops the chart at £29,201 across five trips, averaging £5,840 per trip. Lord Spellar (Australia) is second at £25,262 across three trips, averaging a hefty £8,421 each…
Around 38 of the 52 trips were flown business class. Only six were economy, and those were all short-haul routes in which you cannot purchase business class…
View the full breakdown of the figures below:
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”