In latest news from Pestminster, the government has shelled out over £140,000 of taxpayer cash de-infesting London offices from bed bugs over the past two years, according to an FoI. Measures included binning furniture, heat treatments, and even deploying sniffer dogs. Clearly the creepy-crawlies felt at home in Whitehall…
Last year alone, a whopping £103,170 was spent purging pests from a government hub that hilariously hosts officials from the UK Health Security Agency, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and Justice department. Meanwhile, the Home Office HQ racked up £11,072 in costs for “dog detection air sampling.” In 2023, £28,564 was spent squashing the bugs from the former business department HQ on Victoria Street. They do say politics is a dirty game…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”