Liz Truss was responsible for 51% of Government spending on air travel in 2022
The political debacle that is Liz Truss continues to confound.
The Mirror has reported that Truss was responsible for 51% of all Government spending in 2022. During that time Truss was Foreign Secretary, campaigning to be Tory leader, PM for 46 days and then a backbench MP.
The £1.8m cost including £370K on a trip to a G20 meeting in Indonesia in July 2022. The 18 hour trip resulted in the briefest possible stay by Truss as she flew straight back to begin campaigning for Tory leader after Johnson resigned.
A trip to Australia in January 2022 on the official Government plane cost £454K
Cheaper alternatives were of course available even allowing for the point that in the age of a climate crisis joining some events virtually might have been a more responsible option.
Liz Truss remains a Tory MP and a confirmed Tory candidate at the next Election.
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