Taxpayer Forks Out £11,000 an Hour for Starmer’s Private Jet Flights Over First Three Months in Office
Co-conspirators may remember some of the things Labour figures have had to say about ministerial jet use in the not-so-distant past:
- Starmer: Sunak “doesn’t get” what the public thinks because “the view on the ground is very different to that from his private jet.”
- Reeves: Rishi has a “private jet habit.“
- Rayner: Sunak has been “jetting around the country on taxpayers’ money like an A-list celeb.“
Reeves even made a big thing of pledging to crack down on ministers flying private. She might want to have a word with her Downing Street neighbour…
In his first three months in office Starmer took nine flights at a total duration of 62 hours and 32 minutes. He went on to take many more as co-conspirators will know…
The total cost of that travel as totted up by the Civil Service is a huge £697,198. That means that the UK taxpayer has forked out £186 for every minute that Starmer spent in the air from July to September. Per hour that’s £11,160. The PM is only beaten by his Foreign Secretary on private jet spending over that period. Labour will argue you have to fly if you’re in office – something they didn’t afford the Tories when they were in opposition…
