Miliband Racks Up £17,000 Business Class Flights Bill for New Delhi Vanity Trip – Guido Fawkes

Miliband Racks Up £17,000 Business Class Flights Bill for New Delhi Vanity Trip

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Co-conspirators may remember Ed Miliband’s bizarre trip to New Delhi back in February. It received almost no UK press attention whatsoever…

Guido did catch Miliband saying “the UK is a proud oil and gas producer” at a panel before rushing off without taking questions. Something that miraculously didn’t make it into the joint diplomatic statement…

Guido’s FoI Unit sought the cost of the jaunt. The taxpayer bill for flights alone totted up to £17,159 – Miliband brought five officials with him, only one of whom took a premium economy ticket. The rest of Ed’s crew flew business class…

In fairness to the Justice Secretary, when she took her Civil Service staff with her to Texas this year she shoved them in economy. Miliband, who loves flying from Heathrow, has no such compunction…