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Venice’s five-star Hotel Danieli
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TORY ministers are using taxpayers’ money to “live the high life” in five-star hotels while on overseas trips, Labour charged today.
The party’s analysis of government spending shows that in July 2021, the Treasury spent £3,217 on rooms at Venice’s five-star Hotel Danieli for then chancellor Rishi Sunak and other officials attending a G20 meeting.
Tory Party chairman Greg Hands stayed in a £318-a-night five-star hotel in Germany when he was energy minister in July 2022, while travel and hotel costs for Alok Sharma’s 66 trips as president of the Cop26 climate summit left taxpayers to foot a whopping £220,817 bill.
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