The previous government spent £40.1k per person on a 5-country round trip last year...
I had some snarky remark on how I have to take a 3h bus to the airport, fly coach for 12h (chicken pasta, yum!) and then give a 40min talk at a conference the next morning but I'm actually really grateful I get to do that sort of thing!
What does drive me up the wall is that we have to watch every penny of grant money while ex home secretary Cleverly got to spend £1.4k per head on the in-flight catering (no joke) and nobody even batted an eye. Banana republic...
Their whole trip cost around £561k total which could have paid for e.g. road resurfacing in the order of 47,000m^2 or around 5 miles. I'll remember that when I dodge the manhole-sized potholes on the way to work tomorrow morning.
