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…
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.”