David Lammy spends over a million pound in British tax payers money on private jet travel in the space of 3 months.

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1. Hold on. The Foreign Secretary travels a lot! This is shocking news. /s

   I’m not saying this isn’t a lot but overall it’s hardly a surprising cost.

2. Alternative headline:

   > Foreign Secretary spends £1 mil out of Foreign Office’s £8bn budget on travel to foreign countries in 3 months.

3. This reminds me of The Telegraph’s similar campaign when Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary, they really went hard on him for wasting taxpayer’s money.

   Oh, wait, no they gave him a lucrative opinion piece contract instead.

4. “There is no suggestion Mr Lammy’s use of private jets is out of kilter with his predecessors.” However, we decided to manufature a Labour-bashing story out of it anyway.

5. I hate Lammy but fuck me not like he’s using this for personal reasons, it’s his fucking job, he’d be a shit FOREIGN secretary if he wasn’t travelling. Ridiculous article.

6. yeah it’s not like right now is a fraught time for international relations or anything, where a foreign sec might need to be talking to people

7. Foreign secretary is secretarying foreignly? My god. 

   The Torygraph even admits it’s in line with costs of previous periods. 

8. Breaking news – Foreign Secretary uses private jets to travel at inconvenient times, to places that are often harder to get to, whilst also having to maintain security and take staff and assistants with them. During a time of significant world conflict he has had to travel to lots of places in a very short time. Currently the UK sits pre-eminent in terms of foreign relations having managed to walk a fine line between Europe and the USA. Amazingly this actually cost money!

9. He’s the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.

   I WANT him on a friggin plane to visit our allies and do his job effectively. He’s not a foreign secretary if he’s sat in his comfy office in Westminster…

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11. It would be somewhat absurd to travel commercially with staff, security, and government documents to all these places.

12. Telegraph sharers showing how stupid and anti-British they are on a daily basis.

13. Didn’t Liz Truss spend that on one flight to Australia?

14. GOOD!

    That £335k a month flying over to other countries in search of trade and negotiating trumf tarrifs was likely what got us down to the 10% group instead of the even more insane 25-50%.

    Saving billions in our economy as well as jobs. £335k spent. Billions returned.

    His actual job. Assignment completed.

    Now, let’s move on to Fuk-arge travelling to Maga land every other weekend instead of his constituency.

15. All politicians should be grounded. No flying. No clothes either. No food.

16. He is the ‘foreign’ secretary. The job kinda requires him to travel.

    Now, if the Home Secretary racked this up, different story

17. Can we ban this gutter press from the sub? Yes I get that it has a political angle to play, but this is just the worst kind of poor clickbait that does nothing to improve anything.

18. He’s the foreign secretary during a time of war and American nonsense. You think he’s rocking up to marbs on easyJet.

19. Shouldn’t he be travelling on ordinary flights, even if they were business class. That’s about as good as it gets for labour MPs surely

20. The Foreign Secretary? The top diplomat of the 6th largest economy in the world uses a private jet? Why not fly EasyJet ??!! Outrages

21. Kinda his job to travel about to foreign countries, the only time I’ll moan if he also cried about climate change when he could of just been on a zoom call.

    But yeah, his job requires him to travel, NOW if the Home secretary was fucking off on a plane and not staying and dealing with domestic issues, then I’ll moan.

22. Lammy might be an idiot. But this headline, so what? If anyone is going to need a lot of trips on a private jet, it’s this guy.

23. Maybe we should ban the Foreign Secretary from going to foreign places. We could just call him the place secretary and keep him in Westminster.

    The telegraph would be toilet paper if it were any smarter

24. A Tory would have spent that on a two day bender in Vietnam

25. Perhaps we should revive the King’s Flight rather than have to charter civilian aircraft.

    It is ironic though, considering the amount of fuss Labour made about Sunak and Lord Cameron using jets.

26. I think David Lammy is a prize tw*t tbh.

    That said. He is the foreign secretary and you can’t expect him to travel in cattle class on Easy Jet.

27. Another non story by the Toygraph.
    If anyone needs to be jetting off all around the world, it’s the foreign secretary. He is doing his job!

28. So pleased to see the common sense in the comments here.  Up voting the comments,  down voting the post – though it has helped reinforce avoiding telegraph articles….

29. What!!! The foreign secretary has to go to other countries!!!! No way!!!
    Probably the BBC’s fault!!!

30. And still 200x less than just the money Michelle Mone was give by the tories and definitely less than the billions the tories and their incompetence cost, stole and blew!

31. If its expected for the Foriegn Secretary (or even PM) to travel why do we not have a dedicated air vehicle/line, to ensure we aren’t subject to the profit motive of private corporations?

    This is a partisan attack against a centrist government from a right wing source. But we could use that a weapon to removed the privatisation from part of our country.

32. He would’ve gone Ryanair but his hand luggage fine was too expensive.

33. David lammy the foreign secretary needs to go urgently abroad a lot.

    What a fucking shocker.

34. The foreign secretary should be able to fly on a private jet. For christs sake, the crabs in buckets mentality of this country will drive it into the ground.

35. Whose charging us a million+ for this it can’t cost that much

36. What a stupid article.

    NEWS FLASH
    MAN HAS JOB TO GO AROUND THE WORLD SPENDS MONEY ON TRAVELLING ALOT.

    IN OTHET NEWS
    THE SKY IS INFACT BLUE NOT PINK.

37. That’s one way for the Telegraph to say that they don’t like a black person being successful

38. TBF I saw David lammy commuting into parliament on the victoria line, im sure he has the expense allowance to rack up some hefty taxi bills

39. Honestly this is a non story given his job that’s probably only arisen because of the heavy critic & attention Lammy at times brings up for stupid things

40. Toss this bilge dressed as journalism in the bin. And gtfo in the meantime, thanks and bye

41. why is he usin private jet..  if he can, he should use normal airlines . 

42. I guess this is because Labour were so critical of the Tories doing the same? News flash, labour are just the same party in red.

43. Lol, the torygraph going after a labour foreign minister travelling abroad yet staying quite on the billions wasted by tories giving their mates covid money is just peak.

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