Rishi Sunak most frequent UK flyer amoung recent PMs

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Rishi Sunak was pictured boarding a Dassault Falcon 900LX before a trip to Leeds this year

Rishi Sunak has used RAF jets and helicopters for domestic flights more frequently than the UK’s previous three prime ministers, the BBC can reveal.

Ministry of Defence data show he took almost one such flight a week during his first seven months in office.

The prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy for flying short journeys domestically, given his pledges to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.

But Mr Sunak has said air travel was the “most effective use of my time”.

In total, Mr Sunak boarded 23 domestic flights on these aircraft in 187 days, which is one every eight days on average.

Rishi Sunak takes taxpayer-funded flight inside UK every eight days

Greenpeace claimed Mr Sunak will “go down in history” as failing on climate change, amid fresh concern about the Tory leader’s frequent use of high-polluting travel and approach to net zero.

Rish! ‘Biggles’ Sunak: The most effective use of your time is to make a phone call or a video conference call instead of destroying the planet like the uncaring, planet-trashing cnut we all know that you are.

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Rishi Sunak vows to keep using chopper as he’s too special to get train like rest of us

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps. Credit: Simon Dawson / 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/rishi-sunak-vows-keep-using-30597927

Prime Minister Rishi “Biggles” Sunak says it’s absolutely fine for him to use a chopper instead of getting a train because he’s “running the country”

Climate change activists say Rishi’s jetsetting is unnecessarily pumping harmful CO2 into the atmosphere.

Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Wera Hobhouse raged: “The Prime Minister just cannot help himself. He should catch a train for once to see what the rest of us have to put up with.

“When you catch private flights to Southampton and Dorset, you know you have a problem.”

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