UK PM Blasted For £900,000 Plane Paint Job
In this handout file photo taken and released on April 29, 2020 by 10 Downing Street, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen recording a video message for Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday, inside 10 Downing Street in central London. Pippa FOWLES / AFP.Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced scorn and ridicule Wednesday after the government revealed it will spend nearly a million pounds repainting his official plane the colours of the Union Jack.
Downing Street said the RAF Voyager transport plane that British prime ministers share with members of the royal family was currently getting a makeover near Cambridge, in eastern England.“That incorporates the cost of creating a design that will promote the UK around the world without compromising the plane’s vital military role.”He complained in 2018 that he had to share the “grey” plane with then prime minister Theresa May while he was still serving as foreign minister.
“Rather than reversing the damaging policies that have pushed millions into poverty, the Prime Minister is more interested in finding money to spend on his own vanity project, a luxury VIP plane,” the Scottish National Party’s parliamentary leader Ian Blackford fumed. And Liberal Democrats’ acting leader Ed Davey noted that the dexamethasone steroid that UK scientists showed to be an effective treatment for the most serious novel coronavirus cases only costs a few pounds a patient.
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