In 2021 the Treasury, then under Rishi Sunak, spent £3,217 at the five-star Hotel Danieli in Venice, and £1,361 at Hotel Bonvecchiati, for the then chancellor and 11 other government officials at a G20 meeting. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said: “As Conservative ministers once again reach into the pockets of taxpayers to dine out on five-star luxury lifestyle, families up and down the country are sick with anxiety about whether their pay cheque will cover the weekly shop. “Britain is facing the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades and Rishi Sunak doesn’t seem to have noticed,” she added. A senior Conservative source responded: “Awkwardly for Labour HQ they’ve forgotten that they introduced these ‘civil servant credit cards’ in 1997. “By 2010 Labour was spending almost £1 billion of taxpayers’ money on everything from dinners at Mr Chu’s Chinese restaurant to luxury five-star hotels.
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