New figures quietly slipped out by the Treasury show that between April and June, senior officials racked up £59,226 on flights, hotels and other travel. While Reeves is staring down a £30 billion black hole as the OBR prepares to slash growth forecasts, her civil servants don’t seem too worried about tightening their belts….
Some of those trips weren’t exactly Ryanair economy: business class flights to Cape Town, Washington, Canada and Riyadh. For context, in the same period last year under the Tories, total expenses for senior officials were just £1,581. Cost-of-living, anyone?