David Lammy has kept up his jet-setting habits (diligently reported on by Guido) while outside of government. All paid for, of course…
The latest Register of Members’ Financial Interests shows the sacked former Deputy Prime Minister flew to New York for Climate Week from 22 to 24 September, at the expense of the woke New York Climate Exchange non-profit. The total bill was £10,062…
The Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh was at the same event. Her tickets were funded by the taxpayer, though…
The flights alone came to £8,043 with a further £2,019 on the hotel. Not much change from economy…
Lammy’s parliamentary entry says he went to give remarks at a session on sustainable cities and attend roundtables. He was billed as a speaker at a ‘high-level’ dialogue on transition finance on 24 September. The stated aim was to work out how to move ‘transition finance’ “from billions to trillions.” And that starts with a five-figure flight ticket?
The Munich Security Conference also paid Lammy £870 for a two-day trip to Rome for its European Defence Roundtable and the Premier League handed him two tickets with hospitality for Spurs v Everton, worth £856. Keeping up appearances…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.