Labour scraps £40m private helicopter service favoured by Rishi Sunak
Labour scraps £40m private helicopter service favoured by Rishi Sunak
Senior ministers set to travel in government-owned aircraft after ‘grossly wasteful’ contract axed
Senior ministers set to travel in government-owned aircraft after ‘grossly wasteful’ contract axed
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There is no justification in a country this size for them to be traveling by air at all unless it's an emergency where they're needed somewhere absolutely ASAP, or they need to travel directly from one end of the country to the other, which is almost never.
Just one more way in which those in power separate themselves from those they rule over.
Doesn't London have notoriously bad traffic? I can imagine that might be some justification.
It's got good trains.