Tory ministers opened £1,500 bottle of Cognac in the dying days of the Sunak government Also drunk was a bottle of port that a report on the government wine cellar said should be for ‘very special occasions only’.
Conservative ministers opened a more than 100-year-old bottle of cognac from the government wine cellar in the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s administration, the Foreign Office has said.
The bottles were drunk at “a minister-led event to mark the centenary of the Government Wine Cellar” just months before the Tories left office after 14 years, the government said.
The Quinta do Noval port is one of the older drinks in its collection and one that a previous report on the wine cellar said should be drunk “on very special occasions only”.
The bottles were drunk at the centenary celebrations in December 2023, just five months before Mr Sunak called the general election that saw him ousted from office in a landslide victory for Labour.
