OUR Rishi Sunak accused of squandering public money and undermining his government’s strategy to combat climate crisisafter chartering a second private flight within it United Kingdom in less than a week.

The Prime Minister flew 90 minutes in an RAF fighter jet to Scotland for a two-day visit during which he met with Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon and announced the opening of two new duty-free ports.

The two leaders met in Iverness before Sunak traveled to nearby Cromatrie Firth where he announced the creation of a duty-free green port. He then returned to Downing Street on Friday afternoon.

The return flight, just days after Sanak used another RAF aircraft for the 200-mile flight to Leeds, prompted Labor to accuse him of developing “an expensive habit of flying taxpayer-paid private flights”.

Angela Rayner, head of the party’s faction, said the prime minister should explain why he “felt it appropriate to charter an aircraft critical to UK national security and ridicule his government’s ‘zero aircraft’ strategy”. a prime minister out of touch with the world who lets people pay the price for his lack of common sense and his wasteful and defiling behavior.”

Reiner accused the Tories of wasting taxpayer money with “careless disregard” and promised that Labor would treat it “with due respect”.

The cost of the flight was also criticized by the Liberal Democrats. Daisy Cooper, head of their parliamentary group, said the cost of such a flight showed just how “out of touch” Sunak was.

“What can he say to those who work away from home, who weren’t able to fly to work when his government failed to call strikes?” Cooper said.

The Prime Minister’s Office defended his choice to travel by air rather than by car or train.

His spokesman said the prime minister’s travel decisions are based on “the best use of his time and the taxpayers’ money”.

“In this case, his travel by plane allowed him to meet with the Scottish First Minister, and you already know about his other meetings. We always consider (environmental) issues when making decisions about the Prime Minister’s travels. I’m showing you what he managed to do last night in Scotland.”

According to a recent YouGov poll of 4,950 respondents, the vast majority of public opinion thinks it’s wrong for ministers to travel on private flights domestically.

According to the results, 77% of Britons think it’s inappropriate and only 16% think it’s acceptable. Among Conservative voters, 76% disagree with the idea, while 23% support it.

^{According to The Guardian}