Taxpayer Foots £13,000 Flights Bill for Mauritius Negotiator Powell – Guido Fawkes

Taxpayer Foots £13,000 Flights Bill for Mauritius Negotiator Powell

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Starmer’s “Special Envoy for negotiations between the UK and Mauritius” and National Security adviser Jonathan Powell has been studiously avoiding parliamentary scrutiny by select committee and has instead popping to Mauritius to negotiate on the Chagos Surrender Deal. The first government with which Powell negotiated collapsed in a wiretapping scandal…

A Freedom of Information from Guido’s FoI Unit request reveals that so far during the negotiations the taxpayer has forked out a princely £13,225.24 for Powell’s travels to Mauritius. The ‘Special Envoy’ then stayed at the British High Commissioner’s Residence as he was signing away the “tiny islands.” Emirates flies from LHR first class for about £4,000…

There is still no new official news on the Chagos Deal despite briefing and breathless reporting that its conclusion was fast-approaching. Now Reeves has shaved a few billion off welfare the time is fast approaching to hand £18 billion to Mauritius…