FCDO Alone Spaffs £140,000 on Taxis Since Election

The Foreign Office is blazing into the new government with a whopping price tag on taxi use. An FoI request dispatched from Guido reveals the department alone has spent £140,000 on taxi rides since the election. Whitehall wonks are no strangers to spaffing the cash on private rides…

About two-thirds of FCDO staff turned up to the office according to the last occupancy statistics, before Labour stopped reporting them.[…] Read the rest