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

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.[…] Read the rest