Government Officials Spent £86,000 on Flights and Hotels to Surrender Chagos – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Government Officials Spent £86,000 on Flights and Hotels to Surrender Chagos

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Guido’s FOI Unit can reveal that civil servants racked up a £85,934.14 total expense bill while negotiating the Chagos surrender deal. Between 4 July and 22 May – the day of the giveaway – Foreign Office officials spent £79,253.31 on flights, £3,557.95 on hotels, and £3,122.88 on “other expenses”, including food and taxis. A reminder that the sell out will cost taxpayers £30.3 billion…

Between late August and mid-December, 17 of those flights were business class. Meanwhile foreign secretary David Lammy only had one meeting with Chagossian groups – who opposed the deal – on the day it was signed. Labour’s Suez…