Ed Miliband’s climate tsar Rachel Kyte has clocked in 157,314 air miles in just one year, with the taxpayer on the hook for over £100,000 in (mostly business class) plane tickets. In total, her flight time is equivalent to six trips around the world…
According to LBC’s Henry Riley, 28 flights were in business class, with the most expensive trip coming in at £6,136 for a one-way business class journey from Boston to Hainan. All to attend the “7th Friends of the Paris Agreement” in which she supposedly engaged in “high level dialogue”…
A government spokesperson claimed “the Special Representative for Climate was appointed to support Ministers in driving action on the government’s priorities on international climate action and energy policy”. Nice work if you can get it…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”