The plane can sleep nine and has a menu chosen to suit ‘even the most demanding passengers’ as well as a wine list composed by an expert sommelier.
Lord Cameron, the Foreign Secretary stopped in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia during his tour last week. The trip was intended to promote opportunities for British businesses and herald £50m of new funding to support the sovereignty and independence of state across the region.
In her attack, Emily Thornberry said: ‘Sometimes, on a trip like this, ministers will need to use non-scheduled flights, and if the government’s dedicated RAF jets are unavailable, they may have to charter a plane. That is all fine, but in no world do those circumstances justify hiring one of the most expensive, most luxurious private jets on the market to ferry the Foreign Secretary round Central Asia. That is an unacceptable extravagance.
‘It’s less than a year since James Cleverly was caught spending £422,000 on exactly the same type of jet, but instead of learning from that debacle, David Cameron has used it as a template. They are public servants, and they’re supposed to use taxpayers’ money as carefully as possible, not swan around the world like a pair of Kardashian sisters at the British public’s expense.’
