Civil servants, when not working from home — as is their new obsession — found the time to spray thousands of pounds of our money around private members’ clubs from Pall Mall to Thailand.
Two years ago she accused former PM Rishi Sunak of a “scandalous catalogue of waste” that showed public funds were being “frittered away across every part of government”.
David Lammy — the foghorn-voiced foreign minister who is usually so quick to theatrically call out this kind of thing — saw his department rank as one of the biggest culprits.
I’d like to see him attempt to deliver a parcel from a soulless warehouse somewhere off the M1 to my home without just dumping it by the bin in plain sight of anyone walking past.
A whopping £1,400 splurged at Fortnum & Mason, a sumptuous department store in London’s Mayfair that makes John Lewis look like Poundland.
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