Angela Rayner comments on reports that Liz Truss flew to Australia on private jet costing taxpayers £500k

Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, commenting on reports that Liz Truss flew to Australia on a private jet costing taxpayers £500,000, said:

"Liz Truss shows the public exactly quite how little respect this Conservative Government has for taxpayers' money with her ridiculous waste of half a million pounds on a private jet trip. This Government is brazen in its disregard for upholding decency.

"It is obscene that Government Ministers are jet setting yet are hiking taxes and refusing to do anything to help working families when they are feeling the pinch of the cost of living crisis.

"Tories waste disgusting amounts of public money on their own vanity and comfort, Labour wants to see families see a cut to energy bills - that is the difference."