Sir Keir Starmer’s foreign plane trips in first three months of him being PM cost taxpayers £700,000

SIR Keir Starmer’s overseas level trips successful the archetypal 3 months of him being Prime Minister outgo taxpayers astir £700,000.

It is £161,000 much than the combined measure his predecessors Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss ran up successful their equivalent periods.

And helium has spent much clip overseas successful his archetypal six months than immoderate of them successful their aboriginal months erstwhile they were PM.

The investigation of Government records by the Mail connected Sunday comes aft the Labour leader’s trips earned him the nickname Never Here Keir.

Luke Tryl, of polling institution More In Common, said the PM “hasn’t done a bully occupation of explaining wherefore his trips payment radical astatine home”.

Government records authorities his trips see 1 to New York astatine £236,020.

Others see visits to Rome, Dublin and Berlin, and to Paris and Washington.

He was besides accompanied connected a formation to Berlin to spot the Euro 2024 final.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s flights outgo implicit £900,000 from July to September, successful enactment with his predecessors.